The Evolution, Present Significance, and Future Trajectory of Effective Field Theory (EFT) and the Hidden Frontier
1. Introduction The architecture of the universe at its most fundamental level has, for nearly a century, been interrogated through the brute-force application of high-energy particle collisions. This paradigm—smashing subatomic particles together at ever-increasing energies to manifest new, heavy degrees of freedom—culminated in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider […]