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Assessing (H)EFT theory errors by pitting EoM against Field Redefinitions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

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 uncertainties, which seek to estimate neglected higher-dimensional interactions through approaches based on community consensus. One can then understand the invariance of physics under field redefinitions as a data-informed validation of different power-counting schemes, or as a means of assigning theoretical errors in comparison with algebraic, equation of motion-based replacements. Such an approach generalises widely accepted procedures for estimating theoretical uncertainties within the SM to non-renormalisable interactions. We perform a case study for a representative example in Higgs Effective Field theory, focusing on universal Higgs properties tensioned against process-dependent sensitivity expectations.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15609,
  title  = {Assessing (H)EFT theory errors by pitting EoM against Field Redefinitions},
  author = {Rodrigo Alonso and Christoph Englert and Wrishik Naskar and Shakeel Ur Rahaman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15609},
  year   = {2026}
}

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27 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, author final version published at JHEP

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