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We derive new effective field theory (EFT) positivity bounds on the elastic $2\to2$ scattering amplitudes of massive spinning particles from the standard UV properties of unitarity, causality, locality and Lorentz invariance. By bounding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Joe Davighi , Scott Melville , Tevong You

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -W. Hammer

In this work we investigate the most general non-minimally coupled $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric scalar-tensor effective field theory (EFT) of gravity up to dimension six in the operator expansion. The most general action is presented along with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Callum Hunter , Michael Kenna-Allison

We investigate the relativistic effective field theory (EFT) describing a non-dissipative gravitating continuum. In addition to ordinary continua, namely solids and fluids, we find an extraordinary more symmetric continuum, aether. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi

We study effective field theories (EFTs) enjoying (maximal) biform symmetries. These are defined by the presence of a conserved (electric) current that has the symmetries of a Young tableau with two columns of equal length. When these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Kurt Hinterbichler , Diego M. Hofman , Austin Joyce , Grégoire Mathys

Sources of long wavelength radiation are naturally described by an effective field theory (EFT) which takes the form of a multipole expansion. Its action is given by a derivative expansion where higher order terms are suppressed by powers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Andreas Ross

The virtues of an effective field theory (EFT) approach to many-body problems are illustrated by deriving the expansion for the energy of an homogeneous, interacting Fermi gas at low density and zero temperature. A renormalization scheme…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. -W. Hammer , R. J. Furnstahl

We discuss effective field theories (EFTs) for the Higgs particle, which is not necessarily the Higgs of the Standard Model. We distinguish two different consistent expansions: EFTs that describe decoupling new-physics effects and EFTs that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-28 Claudius Krause

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -W. Hammer

In the absence of a theory of everything, modern physicists need to rely on other predictive tools and turned to Effective Field Theories (EFTs) in a number of fields, including but not limited to statistical mechanics, condensed matter,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 Victor Pozsgay

Effective Field Theory (EFT) stands as a cornerstone in modern theoretical physics, offering a powerful framework for describing the dynamics of physical systems across a wide range of energy scales. This article provides an in-depth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Waqas Riaz

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

We derive an effective field theory describing a pair of gravitationally interacting point particles in an expansion in their mass ratio, also known as the self-force (SF) expansion. The 0SF dynamics are trivially obtained to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Clifford Cheung , Julio Parra-Martinez , Ira Z. Rothstein , Nabha Shah , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

We present the model-independent studies of non attractor inflation in the context of effective field theory (EFT) of inflation. Within the EFT approach two independent branches of non-attractor inflation solutions are discovered in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-06 Mohammad Akhshik , Hassan Firouzjahi , Sadra Jazayeri

A massive, nonrelativistic scalar field in an expanding spacetime is usually approximated by a pressureless perfect fluid, which leads to the standard conclusion that such a field can play the role of cold dark matter. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 Borna Salehian , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , David I. Kaiser

Effective field theories (EFTs) of heavy particles coupled to the inflaton are rife with operator redundancies, frequently obscured by sensitivity to both boundary terms and field redefinitions. We initiate a systematic study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Nathaniel Craig , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune

We use the effective field theory (EFT) framework to calculate the tail effect in gravitational radiation reaction, which enters at 4PN order in the dynamics of a binary system. The computation entails a subtle interplay between the near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-15 Chad R. Galley , Adam K. Leibovich , Rafael A. Porto , Andreas Ross

We present a world-line effective field theory of compact objects moving relativistically through a viscous fluid. The theory is valid when velocity gradients are small compared to the inverse size of the object. Working within the EFT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Beka Modrekiladze , Ira Z. Rothstein , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

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

When a (non-)Abelian gauge field acquires an isotropic background configuration during inflation, strong gravitational waves (GWs) with parity-violating polarization, known as chiral GWs, can be produced in addition to the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Katsuki Aoki , Tomohiro Fujita , Ryodai Kawaguchi , Kazuki Yanagihara