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The stochastic effective theory approach, often called stochastic inflation, is widely used in cosmology to describe scalar field dynamics during inflation. The existing formulations are, however, more qualitative than quantitative because…

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Effective field theory is a powerful organizing principle that allows to describe physics below a certain scale model-independently. Above that energy scale, identified with the cutoff, the EFT description breaks down and new physics is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-19 Lotfi Boubekeur

The physics of de Sitter space is essential to our understanding of our cosmological past, present, and future. It forms the foundation for the statistical predictions of inflation in terms of quantum vacuum fluctuations that are being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Daniel Green

We develop the effective field theory (EFT) of perturbations in the context of scalar-tensor theories with a spacelike scalar profile on arbitrary black hole backgrounds. Our construction of the EFT is based on the fact that in the unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Shinji Mukohyama , Emeric Seraille , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

We formulate the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of perturbations within scalar-tensor theories on an inhomogeneous background. The EFT is constructed while keeping a background of a scalar field to be $\textit{timelike}$, which spontaneously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Shinji Mukohyama , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

We study a low-energy effective field theory (EFT) describing the NN system in which all exchanged particles are integrated out. We show that fitting the residue of the 3S1 amplitude at the deuteron pole, rather than the 3S1 effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniel R. Phillips , Gautam Rupak , Martin J. Savage

Effective Field Theory (EFT) extensions of the Standard Model are tools to compute observables $\big(e.g.$ cross sections with partonic center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{\hat{s}}\,\big)$ as a systematically improvable expansion suppressed by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 Timothy Cohen , Joel Doss , Xiaochuan Lu

An important insight from the study of AdS/CFT is that bulk locality can be derived from crossing symmetry of the boundary CFT. In this paper, we take the first steps in extending this statement to de Sitter background by demonstrating how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Parijat Dey , Zhongjie Huang , Arthur Lipstein

Non-perturbative limitations on low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) based on the characteristics of high-energy theory are provided by the analyticity of the flat-space version of the S-matrix. Although the analyticity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Sayantan Choudhury

The effective field theory (EFT) of cosmological perturbations is a useful framework to deal with the low-energy degrees of freedom present for inflation and dark energy. We review the EFT for modified gravitational theories by starting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Shinji Tsujikawa

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) attempts to amend some of the shortcomings of the traditional perturbative methods used in cosmology. It models the evolution of long-wavelength perturbations above a cutoff…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Mandar Karandikar , Cristiano Porciani , Oliver Hahn

We develop interactions from chiral effective field theory (EFT) that are tailored to the harmonic oscillator basis. As a consequence, ultraviolet convergence with respect to the model space is implemented by construction and infrared…

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The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

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The conservation of the long wavelength fluctuations of the metric plays a vital role in cosmology as the link between quantum fluctuations during inflation and late time observations. This is a well-known property of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Daniel Green , Kshitij Gupta

We formulate an effective field theory (EFT) of coupled dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interacting through energy and momentum transfers. In the DE sector, we exploit the EFT of vector-tensor theories with the presence of a preferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Katsuki Aoki , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Shinji Tsujikawa

Small clusters of $^4$He atoms provide a paradigmatic setting for exploring universal phenomena in few-body quantum systems with large scattering length. Their weakly bound states serve as ideal test cases for studying Efimov physics and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-18 Betzalel Bazak

We have continued the development of Lagrangian, cosmological perturbation theory for the low-order correlators of the matter density field. We provide a new route to understanding how the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Zvonimir Vlah , Martin White , Alejandro Aviles

We develop an on-shell framework for matching ultraviolet (UV) theories to low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) at loop level, based on the unitary cut method. By promoting unitarity double-cuts to $d=4-2\epsilon$ dimensions, the…

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