2 papers
gr-qc2018
Effective Field Theory of Black Hole Echoes
C. P. Burgess, Ryan Plestid, Markus Rummel
Gravitational wave `echoes' during black-hole merging events have been advocated as possible signals of modifications to gravity in the strong-field (but semiclassical) regime. In…
hep-ph2018
Fall to the Centre in Atom Traps and Point-Particle EFT for Absorptive Systems
Ryan Plestid, C. P. Burgess, D H J O'Dell
Polarizable atoms interacting with a charged wire do so through an inverse-square potential, . This system is known to realize scale invariance in a nontrivial way and…