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Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, developed in particle physics, were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas Colas

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 present the explicit construction of the effective field theory (EFT) of standard model mass eigenstates. The EFT, which is invariant under $U(1)_{\text{e.m.}}\times SU(3)_c$, is constructed based on the on-shell method and Young Tableau…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-22 Zi-Yu Dong , Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Zi-Zheng Zhou

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

We develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism to solve for the conservative dynamics of binary systems in gravity via Post-Minkowskian (PM) scattering data. Our framework combines a systematic EFT approach to compute the deflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Gregor Kälin , Rafael A. Porto

We present a convex geometry perspective to the Effective Field Theory (EFT) parameter space. We show that the second $s$ derivatives of the forward EFT amplitudes form a convex cone, whose extremal rays are closely connected with states in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) was proposed to constrain Effective Field Theories (EFTs) with Abelian gauge symmetry coupled to gravity. In this article, I study the WGC from low energy observers' perspective, and revisit the issue of to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Kazuyuki Furuuchi

We formulate the effective field theory (EFT) of vector-tensor gravity for perturbations around an arbitrary background with a ${\it timelike}$ vector profile, which can be applied to study black hole perturbations. The vector profile…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-08 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

We analyze constraints from perturbative unitarity and crossing on the leading contributions of higher-dimension operators to the four-graviton amplitude in four spacetime dimensions, including constraints that follow from distinct helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-03 Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

We explore a recently proposed effective field theory describing electromagnetically or gravitationally interacting massive particles in an expansion about their mass ratio, also known as the self-force (SF) expansion. By integrating out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Clifford Cheung , Julio Parra-Martinez , Ira Z. Rothstein , Nabha Shah , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

We distinguish between the notions of asymptotic causality and infrared causality for gravitational effective field theories, and show that the latter gives constraints consistent with gravitational positivity bounds. We re-explore the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Calvin Y. -R. Chen , Claudia de Rham , Aoibheann Margalit , Andrew J. Tolley

The Hamiltonian analysis for $f(T)$ gravity implies the existence of at least one scalar-type degree of freedom (DoF). However, this scalar DoF of $f(T)$ gravity does not manifest in linear perturbations around a cosmological background,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-01 Yu-Min Hu , Yang Yu , Yi-Fu Cai , Xian Gao

The application of the effective field theory (EFT) method to nuclear systems is reviewed. The roles of degrees of freedom, QCD symmetries, power counting, renormalization, and potentials are discussed. EFTs are constructed for various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. van Kolck

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

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 compute the contribution to the Lagrangian from the leading order (2.5 post-Newtonian) radiation reaction and the quadrupolar gravitational waves emitted from a binary system using the effective field theory (EFT) approach of Goldberger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Chad R. Galley , Manuel Tiglio

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

We examine effective field theories (EFTs) with a continuum sector in the presence of gravity. We first explain, via arguments based on central charge and species scale, that an EFT with a free continuum cannot consistently couple to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Sylvain Fichet , Eugenio Megias , Mariano Quiros

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