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In a recently proposed scenario for primordial inflation, where the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson plays a role of the inflation field, an effective field theory (EFT) approach is the most convenient for working out the consequences of…

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We study the effective field theory (EFT) description of the virtual particle effects in quasi-single field inflation, which unifies the previous results on large mass and large mixing cases. By using a horizon crossing approximation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Siyi Zhou

We present an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism which describes the dynamics of non-relativistic extended objects coupled to gravity. The formalism is relevant to understanding the gravitational radiation power spectra emitted by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Ira Z. Rothstein

The predictions of inflation are usually defined in terms of equal time in-in correlation functions in an accelerating cosmological background. These same observables exist for quantum field theory in other spacetimes, including flat space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Green , Guanhao Sun

We discover a surprising relationship between exceptional effective field theories (EFTs) in de Sitter space and a notion of \textit{generalised energy conservation} (GEC) of an S-matrix defined in an extended Poincar\'{e} patch of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Zong-Zhe Du , David Stefanyszyn

The application of Effective Field Theory (EFT) methods to inflation has taken a central role in our current understanding of the very early universe. The EFT perspective has been particularly useful in analyzing the self-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Rhiannon Gwyn , Gonzalo A. Palma , Mairi Sakellariadou , Spyros Sypsas

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides an essential picture to explore the effects of the unknown high energy physics in the single scalar field inflation models. For a generic EFT of inflation, possible high energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-03 Guang-Hua Ding , Jin Qiao , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

We present a novel way in which effective field theory (EFT) can break down in cosmological string backgrounds depending on the behavior of the quantum gravity cutoff in infinite distance limits, known as the species scale $\Lambda_s$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-21 Alek Bedroya , Hayden Lee , Paul Steinhardt

We present an effective field theory (EFT) for a model-independent description of deformed atomic nuclei. In leading order this approach recovers the well-known results from the collective model by Bohr and Mottelson. When higher-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-14 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmüller

We investigate a systematic formulation of vector-tensor theories based on the effective field theory (EFT) approach. The input of our EFT is that the spacetime symmetry is spontaneously broken by the existence of a preferred timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides a natural framework to study the new physical effects on primordial perturbations. Recently a healthy extension of the EFT of inflation with high-order operators has been proposed,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jin Qiao , Guang-Hua Ding , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework to exploit a separation of scales in order to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. We apply this method to strongly interacting quantum systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-25 H. -W. Hammer

Effective Field Theories are an established framework to bridge the gap between UV and low energy theories. In the context of the Standard Model, the bottom-up approach extends its operator set and thus equips us to astutely probe its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-23 Supratim Das Bakshi , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation has become the preferred method for computing cosmological correlation functions of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$. It makes explicit use of the soft breaking of time diffeomorphisms by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-10 Nishant Agarwal , Raquel H. Ribeiro , R. Holman

We classify effective field theory (EFT) deformations of the Standard Model (SM) according to the analyticity property of the Lagrangian as a function of the Higgs doublet H. Our distinction in analytic and non-analytic corresponds to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Adam Falkowski , Riccardo Rattazzi

We review the effective field theories (EFTs) developed for few-nucleon systems. These EFTs are controlled expansions in momenta, where certain (leading-order) interactions are summed to all orders. At low energies, an EFT with only contact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. F. Bedaque , U. van Kolck

We study the possibility of realizing scale-separated type IIB Anti-de Sitter and de Sitter compactifications within a controlled effective field theory regime defined by low-energy and large (but scale-separated) compactification volume.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Maxim Emelin

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong

In this paper we consider Quadratic Gravity as a low energy effective field theory of some unknown UV-complete theory of gravity. Using the spin-2 ghost pathology that occurs in Quadratic Gravity, we derive maximum value for the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-08 Callum Hunter