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The clear separation of scales observed in halo nuclei between the extended halo and the compact core makes these exotic nuclei a perfect subject for Effective Field Theory (EFT). Such description leads to a systematic expansion of the…

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We highlight some of the recent advances in the application of chiral effective field theory (chiral EFT) with baryons to the $\pi N$ scattering process. We recall some problems that cast doubt on the applicability of chiral EFT to $\pi N$…

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An effective field theory treatment of nucleon-nucleon scattering at low energy shows much promise and could prove a useful tool in the study of nuclear matter at both ordinary and extreme densities. The analysis is complicated by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 David B. Kaplan

The process of renormalisation in nonperturbative Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory (HEFT) is examined in the $\Delta$-resonance scattering channel. As an extension of effective field theory incorporating the L\"uscher formalism, HEFT…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-31 Curtis D. Abell , Derek B. Leinweber , Anthony W. Thomas , Jia-Jun Wu

We reformulate the analysis of nuclear parity-violation (PV) within the framework of effective field theory (EFT). To order Q, the PV nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction depends on five a priori unknown constants that parameterize the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Shi-Lin Zhu , C. M. Maekawa , B. R. Holstein , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , 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

Relativistic energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear structure calculations, providing a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear ground states and collective excitations. Guided by the medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar , Peter Ring

The central tenet of effective theory is that the details of short-distance physics will not have a significant impact on low-energy observables. Here we perform an analysis of electron-deuteron scattering at low momentum transfers which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 D. R. Phillips , T. D. Cohen

We present a study of two-nucleon scattering in chiral effective field theory with a finite cutoff to next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion. In the proposed scheme, the contributions of the lowest-order interaction to the scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 A. M. Gasparyan , E. Epelbaum

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

The Exact Factorization (EF) theory aims at the separation of the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom in the many-body (MB) quantum mechanical problem. Being formally equivalent to the solution of the MB Schr\"{o}dinger equation, EF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Vladimir U. Nazarov , E. K. U. Gross

I present the results obtained for several observables in the two-nucleon sector using effective field theory with KSW power-counting and dimensional regularization. In addition to the phase shifts for nucleon-nucleon scattering, several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin J. Savage

Non-relativistic effective field theories (NREFTs) play a crucial role in various areas of physics, from cold atom experiments to cosmology. In this paper, we present a systematic framework for deriving NREFTs from relativistic theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 H. S. Modirzadeh , R. Moti , M. H. Namjoo

We discuss the application of an effective field theory (EFT) which incorporates the chiral symmetry of QCD to Compton scattering from the proton and deuteron. We describe the chiral EFT analysis of the proton Compton scattering database…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniel R. Phillips , Judith A. McGovern , Harald W. Griesshammer

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

The conventional oblique parameters analyses of precision electroweak data can be consistently cast in the modern framework of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) when restrictions are imposed on the SMEFT parameter space so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 James D. Wells , Zhengkang Zhang

We investigate pionless effective field theory (\nopieft) with finite-cutoff regularization as a framework for describing few-nucleon systems. This formulation incorporates effective-range effects already at leading order (LO), thereby…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Liron H. Avraham , Betzalel Bazak

Truncations of effective field theory expansions are technically necessary but inherently intertwined with the redundancies of general field redefinitions. This can be viewed as a juxtaposition of power-counting and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Rodrigo Alonso , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

Neutrino physics is advancing into a precision era with the construction of new experiments, particularly in the few GeV energy range. Within this energy range, neutrinos exhibit diverse interactions with nucleons and nuclei. This study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-01 Joachim Kopp , Noemi Rocco , Zahra Tabrizi

These notes are an overview of effective field theory (EFT) methods. I discuss toy model EFTs, chiral perturbation theory, Fermi liquid theory, and non-relativistic QED, and use these examples to introduce a variety of EFT concepts,…

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