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                  "Describing hadrons containing heavy quarks and predicting their decays.",
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                  {
                    "quantity": "Expansion parameter",
                    "typical_range": "Smaller than one in a controlled expansion; its precise form and acceptable size depend on the theory and required accuracy.",
                    "unit": "Dimensionless"
                  },
                  {
                    "quantity": "Breakdown scale",
                    "typical_range": "Theory-dependent; set by omitted degrees of freedom or dynamics that invalidate the chosen expansion.",
                    "unit": "Energy or momentum, commonly eV, MeV, or GeV"
                  },
                  {
                    "quantity": "Wilson coefficients or low-energy constants",
                    "typical_range": "Determined by matching, measurements, or other calculations; no universal range.",
                    "unit": "Depends on operator dimension and normalization"
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of effective field theory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Applying the theory near or beyond its breakdown scale can invalidate predictions and uncertainty estimates.",
                  "Omitting relevant degrees of freedom or interactions can spoil the expansion.",
                  "Using inconsistent power counting or renormalization can prevent systematic improvement.",
                  "Neglecting truncation errors, parameter correlations, or operator degeneracies can produce misleading constraints.",
                  "Assuming coefficient sizes from naturalness alone can miss fine tuning or enhanced interactions."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of effective field theory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "Quantum field theory",
                    "difference": "Quantum field theory is the broader formalism; an effective field theory specifies a domain of validity and organizes contributions according to a scale expansion."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Renormalization group",
                    "difference": "The renormalization group describes how a theory's parameters change with scale; effective field theory uses this machinery to construct and connect descriptions valid at different scales."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Phenomenological model",
                    "difference": "A phenomenological model need not have systematic power counting or controlled truncation errors, whereas those are central aims of effective field theory."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Ultraviolet completion",
                    "difference": "An ultraviolet completion supplies a description at higher energies that can reproduce the effective theory at lower energies."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of effective field theory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Does the registry intend effective field theory primarily as a methodology, a field of knowledge or a class of formulations, and does an existing world model already own that concept?",
    "Which defining references and classification conventions should anchor its INF.KNW placement without treating courses, publications or practitioners as the thing itself?",
    "How broadly should this entry cover classical, thermal, open-system and nonlocal effective descriptions, and what recognition criteria remain valid across them?",
    "What minimum evidence should distinguish an EFT with an unresolved error estimate from an effective model that has no justified systematic expansion?",
    "Which named EFT families need linked application models, and which differences can be represented within this shared model without duplicating their subject matter?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 7,
    "layers": 13,
    "findings": 18,
    "questions": 39
  }
}
