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The low-energy effective field theory is constructed by integrating out Standard Model states with masses proximate to the electroweak scale. We report the equations of motion for this theory, including corrections due to higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Andreas Helset , Michael Trott

We use modern dimensionally-reduced effective field theory methods, with careful attention to scale hierarchies, to analyze and catalog the types of first-order electroweak phase transitions that are possible in the Standard Model Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Eliel Camargo-Molina , Rikard Enberg , Johan Löfgren

The study of Higgs boson production at large transverse momentum is one of the new frontiers for the LHC Higgs physics programme. This paper considers boosted Higgs production in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Marco Battaglia , Massimiliano Grazzini , Michael Spira , Marius Wiesemann

In this study, we examine the possibilities opened by upcoming high-energy deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments to investigate new physics within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Specifically, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Chiara Bissolotti , Radja Boughezal , Kaan Simsek

We present a novel framework for carrying out global analyses of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at dimension-six: SMEFiT. This approach is based on the Monte Carlo replica method for deriving a faithful estimate of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Nathan P. Hartland , Fabio Maltoni , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo , Emma Slade , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

We apply an orthogonalization procedure on the effective field theory of large scale structure (EFT of LSS) shapes, relevant for the angle-averaged bispectrum and non-Gaussian covariance of the matter power spectrum at one loop. Assuming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Daniele Bertolini , Mikhail P. Solon

In this work we study the production of two Higgs bosons at the two planned electron positron colliders with energies at the TeV domain, CLIC and ILC, within the context of Effective Field Theories (EFTs) to describe beyond the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 D. Domenech , M. J. Herrero , R. A. Morales , M. Ramos

In this paper, we continue to construct the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the canonical seesaw models, which are natural extensions of the Standard Model (SM) to accommodate tiny but nonzero neutrino masses. Different from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-11 Xu Li , Di Zhang , Shun Zhou

The ongoing Effective Field Theory (EFT) program at the LHC and elsewhere is motivated by streamlining the connection between experimental data and UV-complete scenarios of heavy new physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). This connection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Jaco ter Hoeve , Giacomo Magni , Juan Rojo , Alejo N. Rossia , Eleni Vryonidou

Even if some experimental evidence suggests the existence of physics beyond the SM, no clues of new resonances can be found in the data. In the case their masses are much larger than the energies of current experiments, the SMEFT formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Matteo Maltoni

The LHC has confirmed the existence of a mass gap between the known particles and possible new states. Effective field theory is then the appropriate tool to search for low-energy signals of physics beyond the Standard Model. We adopt the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Antonio Pich , Ignasi Rosell , Juan José Sanz-Cillero

Precise predictions for Higgs boson masses in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can be obtained by combining fixed-order calculations with effective field theory (EFT) methods for the resummation of large logarithms in case of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Henning Bahl , Wolfgang Hollik

Higgs pair production offers the opportunity to probe correlations among the couplings of one or two Higgs bosons to fermions and gauge bosons. In this context, it serves as a powerful test of the underlying Effective Field Theory (EFT)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Ilaria Brivio , Ramona Gröber , Konstantin Schmid

We consider the phenomenological implications of charged scalar extensions of the SM Higgs sector in addition to EFT couplings of this new state to SM matter. We perform a detailed investigation of modifications of loop-induced decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Anisha , Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Michael Spannowsky

We write down a geometric realization of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) extended by $n_f$ flavours of light sterile neutrinos, a so-called geo$\nu$SMEFT. As with the geoSMEFT introduced by Helset, Martin and Trott, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Jim Talbert

It is well known that the electroweak phase transition (EWPhT) in extensions of the Standard Model with one real scalar singlet can be first-order for realistic values of the Higgs mass. We revisit this scenario with the most general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jose R. Espinosa , Thomas Konstandin , Francesco Riva

We construct a generalized linear sigma model as an effective field theory (EFT) to describe nearly conformal gauge theories at low energies. The work is motivated by recent lattice studies of gauge theories near the conformal window, which…

We obtain SMEFT bounds using an approach that utilises the complete multi-dimensional differential information of a process. This approach is based on the fact that at a given EFT order, the full angular distribution in the most important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-12 Shankha Banerjee , Rick S. Gupta , Joey Y. Reiness , Satyajit Seth , Michael Spannowsky

Searches for charge-parity (CP) violating interactions of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson are a key priority of the LHC physics program. Experimental results from ATLAS and CMS are often reinterpreted within a variety of theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Daniele Barducci , Matthew Forslund , Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Pier Paolo Giardino , Andrei V. Gritsan , Giacomo Ortona

Conventional approaches to describe dark matter phenomenology at collider and (in)direct detection experiments in the form of dark matter effective field theory or simplified models suffer in general from drawbacks regarding validity at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-23 Tommi Alanne , Florian Goertz