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Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

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 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 present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

The effective field theory (EFT) concept provides a necessary tool for obtaining general predictions of low-energy theory valid below its unitarity-breaking scale (cutoff scale). Early Universe inflation and subsequent reheating could be a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiaxin Cheng , Anna Tokareva

The Effective Field Theory (EFT) of perturbations on an arbitrary background geometry with a timelike scalar profile was recently constructed in the context of scalar-tensor theories. In this paper, we use this EFT to study quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi , Keitaro Tomikawa , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Gravitational scattering of the electromagnetic field from a heavy scalar field provides a fundamental testbed for understanding the deflection of light by massive bodies. In many approaches based on effective field theory, the calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Yihan Ma , Ding-fang Zeng

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

With no direct evidence for new physics at the TeV scale, deviations from the Standard Model (SM) can be explored systematically through Effective Field Theories (EFTs) such as the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT). SMEFT extends the SM by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Dongwon Kim

We investigate the semiclassical approach to the lensing of photons in a spherically symmetric gravitational background, starting from Born level and include in our analysis the radiative corrections obtained from the electroweak theory for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Matteo Maria Maglio , Mirko Serino

We consider Horava gravity within the framework of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy and modified gravity. We work out a complete mapping of the theory into the EFT language for an action including all the operators which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-09 Noemi Frusciante , Marco Raveri , Daniele Vernieri , Bin Hu , Alessandra Silvestri

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) capture effects from heavy dynamics at low energy and represent an essential ingredient in the context of Standard Model (SM) precision tests. This document gathers a number of relevant scenarios for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 D. Marzocca , F. Riva , J. Criado , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , B. Henning , D. Liu , C. Murphy , M. Perez-Victoria , J. Santiago , L. Vecchi , Lian-Tao Wang

We firstly present a new asymptotical flat and spherically symmetric solution in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity and then investigate the propagation of photon in this background. This solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Songbai Chen , Lu Zhang , Jiliang Jing

Effective field theory (EFT) methods are applied to density functional theory (DFT) as part of a program to systematically go beyond mean-field approaches to medium and heavy nuclei. A system of fermions with short-range, natural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Puglia , A. Bhattacharyya , R. J. Furnstahl

We explore the weak-field phenomenology of a compact star spacetime modified by quantum gravitational corrections derived from the effective field theoretical (EFT) approach by Calmet et al. [1]. These corrections, encoded in non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Ovgun , Gaetano Lambiase

In this paper we construct an effective field theory (EFT) that describes long wavelength gravitational radiation from compact systems. To leading order, this EFT consists of the multipole expansion, which we describe in terms of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Walter D. Goldberger , Andreas Ross

We take an Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to unifying existing proposals for the origin of cosmic acceleration and its connection to cosmological observations. Building on earlier work where EFT methods were used with observations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Jolyon K. Bloomfield , Éanna É. Flanagan , Minjoon Park , Scott Watson

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

It is believed that rays bent inside and outside photon spheres could affect partially the black hole shadow images by the Event Horizon Telescope and the rays near photon spheres would be detected by near-future space observations. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Naoki Tsukamoto

In this work we apply effective field theory (EFT) to observables in quarkonium production and decay that are sensitive to soft gluon radiation, in particular measurements that are sensitive to small transverse momentum. Within the EFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Sean Fleming , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen
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