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Assuming the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) with a characteristic scale M ~ O(10) TeV, we investigate the naturalness of the Higgs sector at scales below M using an effective field theory (EFT) approach. We obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Shaouly Bar-Shalom , Amarjit Soni , Jose Wudka

This note gives an overview of the tools for predicting expectations in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at the tree level and one loop available through event generators. Methods of event reweighting, the separate…

The current generation of covariant mean-field models has had many successes in calculations of bulk observables for medium to heavy nuclei, but there remain many open questions. New challenges are confronted when trying to systematically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 R. J. Furnstahl

In the framework of the effective field theory (EFT) we discuss the electroweak (EW) corrections at LEP energies. We obtain the effective Lagrangian in the large m_t limit, and reproduce analytically the dominant EW corrections to the LEP2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Akhundov , J. Bernabeu , D. Gomez Dumm , A. Santamaria

We use effective field theory to compute the influence of nuclear structure on precision calculations of atomic energy levels. As usual, the EFT's effective couplings correspond to the various nuclear properties (such as the charge radius,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 L. Zalavari , C. P. Burgess , P. Hayman , M. Rummel

We present a general method of constructing unfactorizable on-shell amplitudes (amplitude basis), and build up their one-to-one correspondence to the independent and complete operator basis in effective field theory (EFT). We apply our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao

Effective Field Theory technique is one of the most elegant ways to capture the impact of high scale theory, if any, at some low energy by incorporating higher mass dimensional ($\geq 5$) effective operators ($\mathcal{O}_i$). The low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Anisha , Supratim Das Bakshi , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Suraj Prakash

In recent times, SMEFT, along with a superlative repertoire of theoretical and computational tools, has emerged as an efficacious platform to test the viability of proposed BSM scenarios. With symmetry as the backbone, higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Wrishik Naskar , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

There is increasing need to assess the impact and the interpretation of dim = 6 and dim = 8 operators within the context of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The observational and mathematical consistency of a construct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-07 Giampiero Passarino

The consistency relations in large scale structure relate the lower-order correlation functions with their higher-order counterparts. They are direct outcome of the underlying symmetries of a dynamical system and can be tested using data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Dipak Munshi , Donough Regan

Recent efforts, both theoretical and experimental, have increasingly focused on the scalar potential of the Standard Model, with a highlight on the trilinear Higgs coupling. This parameter has long been recognized for its potential to test…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Adriano Cherchiglia , Leonardo J. Ferreira Leite

We study the phenomenology of the simplest renormalisable model that, at low energy, leads to the effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with right-handed neutrinos ($\nu$SMEFT). Our aim is twofold. First, to contextualise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-29 Mikael Chala , Arsenii Titov

We use effective field theory (EFT) to calculate the scattering amplitude of a LIGO-like graviton-scalar Compton interaction. We gauge the center-of-momentum energy $\sqrt{s}$ between one gravitational-wave (GW) graviton (one quantum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Noah M. MacKay

In the effective field theory (EFT), the positivity bound on dim-8 effective operators tells us that the $s^2$ contribution in the scattering amplitude of 2-to-2 process geometrically corresponds to the convex cone composed of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Chengjie Yang , Zhe Ren , Jiang-Hao Yu

When integrating out unknown new physics sectors, what is the minimal character of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that can result? In this paper we focus on a particular aspect of this question: "How can one obtain only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-28 Yun Jiang , Michael Trott

We investigate constraints on couplings of Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) operators contributing to $Wtb$ effective vertex at tree level. We study the one-loop level impact of these couplings on the low-energy flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Subhajit Kala , Lipika Kolay , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Soumitra Nandi

We extend the effective field theory (EFT) formalism for gravitational radiation from a binary system of compact objects to the case of extended objects. In particular, we study the EFT for a binary system consisting of two infinitely-long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Qiuyue Liang , Mark Trodden

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

We use a functional approach based on the background-field formalism and the expansion by regions to integrate out the heavy Higgs field (associated with the mass eigenstate H) in a singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM) at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Stefan Dittmaier , Sebastian Schuhmacher , Maximilian Stahlhofen

New physics not far above the TeV scale should leave a pattern of virtual effects in observables at lower energies. What do these effects tell us about the flavor structure of a UV theory? Within the framework of Standard Model Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Sebastian Bruggisser , Ruth Schäfer , Danny van Dyk , Susanne Westhoff