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We demonstrate how masses of new states, beyond direct experimental reach, could nevertheless be extracted in the framework of effective field theory (EFT), given broad assumptions on the underlying UV physics, however not sticking to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-10 Florian Goertz

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is an efficient method for parametrizing unknown high energy physics effects on low energy data. When applied to time-dependent backgrounds, EFT must be supplemented with initial conditions. In these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Porrati

We present a practical three-step procedure of using the Standard Model effective field theory (SM EFT) to connect ultraviolet (UV) models of new physics with weak scale precision observables. With this procedure, one can interpret…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-10 Brian Henning , Xiaochuan Lu , Hitoshi Murayama

Effective field theories (EFTs) are widely considered by physicists to be explanatory and to be the appropriate frameworks for modelling various phenomena at different scales. At the same time, they are known to be approximate, restricted,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Martin King

We present an improved action for renormalizable effective field theories (EFTs) of systems near the two-body unitarity limit. The ordering of EFT interactions is constrained, but not entirely fixed, by the renormalization group. The…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2024-01-17 L. Contessi , M. Schäfer , U. van Kolck

We advocate an effective field theory approach to anomalous couplings. The effective field theory approach is the natural way to extend the standard model such that the gauge symmetries are respected. It is general enough to capture any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Celine Degrande , Nicolas Greiner , Wolfgang Kilian , Olivier Mattelaer , Harrison Mebane , Tim Stelzer , Scott Willenbrock , Cen Zhang

Nuclear energy density functionals (EDFs) have a long history of success in reproducing properties of nuclei across the table of the nuclides. They capture quantitatively the emergent features of bound nuclei, such as nuclear saturation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 R. J. Furnstahl

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) constructed as derivative expansions in powers of momentum, in the spirit of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT), are a controllable approximation to strong dynamics as long as the energy of the interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Juan Escudero-Pedrosa , Jose Antonio Oller

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

We consider the low-energy effective field theory describing the infrared dynamics of non-dissipative fluids. We extend previous work to accommodate conserved charges, and we clarify the matching between field theory variables and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-23 Sergei Dubovsky , Lam Hui , Alberto Nicolis , Dam Thanh Son

We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from spinning binary systems. We conclude with an introduction to EFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Rafael A. Porto

We study constraints on the effective field theory (EFT) from the relative entropy between two theories: we refer to these as target and reference theories. The consequence of the non-negativity of the relative entropy is investigated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Qing-Hong Cao , Naoto Kan , Daiki Ueda

Physics beyond the standard model can affect top-quark physics indirectly. We describe the effective field theory approach to describing such physics, and contrast it with the vertex-function approach that has been pursued previously. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-19 Cen Zhang , Scott Willenbrock

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.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

We discuss an effective field theory (EFT) approach to the computation of fluctuation-induced interactions between particles bound to a thermally fluctuating fluid surface controlled by surface tension. By describing particles as points,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Cem Yolcu , Ira Z. Rothstein , Markus Deserno

I review the effective field theory (EFT) description of gravitating compact objects. The focus is on kinematic regimes where gravity is perturbative, in particular the adiabatic inspiral phase relevant to gravitational wave detection. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Walter D. Goldberger

Positivity bounds in effective field theories (EFTs) can be extracted through the moment problem approach, utilizing well-established results from the mathematical literature. We generalize this formalism using the matrix moment approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Shi-Lin Wan , Shuang-Yong Zhou

Effective field theories have been successful in describing nuclei up to the alpha particle but face significant challenges for larger nuclei due to leading-order instabilities. These issues can be addressed with the introduction of a fake…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 U. van Kolck

The Effective Field Theory (EFT) of Preheating with scalar fields, implies three types of derivative couplings between the inflaton and the reheating field. Two of these couplings lead to scales below which only one of the two species…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Gizem Şengör

We present a simple introduction to the techniques of effective field theory (EFT) and their application to QCD. For problems with more than one energy scale, the EFT approach is a useful alternative to more traditional model-building…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 U. van Kolck , L. J. Abu-Raddad , D. M. Cardamone