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The one loop effects of two dimension-six operators on gauge boson self energies are computed within an effective field theory framework. These self energies are translated into effects on precision electroweak observables, and bounds are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Harrison Mebane , Nicolas Greiner , Cen Zhang , Scott Willenbrock

Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and the Low Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT) can be extended by adding additional spin 0, 1/2 and 1 dark matter particles which are singlets under the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-13 Jason Aebischer , Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Tong Li , Xiao-Dong Ma , Michael A. Schmidt

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

Baryon number-violating processes arise generically in many extensions of the Standard Model, with Grand Unified Theories providing the most compelling realizations. Ongoing experimental searches at JUNO, Hyper-K, and DUNE motivate a more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Chuan-Qiang Song , Jiang-Hao Yu

Meson-antimeson mixing provides the most stringent constraints on baryon- and lepton-number conserving New Physics, probing scales higher than $10^5$ TeV. In the context of the effective theory of weak interactions, these constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-04 Luca Silvestrini , Mauro Valli

Standard Model Neutrino Effective Field Theory (SMNEFT) is an effective theory with Standard Model (SM) gauge-invariant operators constructed only from SM and right-handed neutrino fields. For the full set of dimension-six SMNEFT operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Alakabha Datta , Jacky Kumar , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

In this paper we systematically consider the baryon ($B$) and lepton ($L$) number violating dinucleon to dilepton decays ($pp\to \ell^+\ell^{\prime+}, pn\to \ell^+\bar\nu^\prime, nn\to \bar\nu\bar\nu^\prime$) with $\Delta B=\Delta L=-2$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-10 Xiao-Gang He , Xiao-Dong Ma

We calculate a set of one-loop corrections to $h\to b\bar b$ and $h\to \tau\bar \tau$ decays in the dimension-6 Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). In particular, working in the limit of vanishing gauge couplings, we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Rhorry Gauld , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Darren J. Scott

We derive bounds on nine dimension-six operators involving electroweak gauge bosons and the Higgs boson from precision electroweak data. Four of these operators contribute at tree level, and five contribute only at one loop. Using the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-24 Harrison Mebane , Nicolas Greiner , Cen Zhang , Scott Willenbrock

The basis of leading operators which are not invariant under baryon number is constructed within the Higgs Effective Field Theory. This list contains 12 dimension six operators, which preserve the combination B-L, to be compared to only 6…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Luca Merlo , Sara Saa , Mario Sacristan-Barbero

We formalize energy-scaling arguments in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to estimate effects of operators up to dimension ten. Introducing a classification based on the number of external legs and an energy-counting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Benoît Assi , Adam Martin

We calculate the $S$-matrix element for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$-boson and a photon, $h\to Z\gamma$, at one-loop in the Standard-Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework and in linear $R_{\xi}$-gauges. Our SMEFT expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-28 A. Dedes , K. Suxho , L. Trifyllis

It is not only conceivable but likely that the spectrum of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) is non-degenerate. The lightest non-SM particle may reside close enough to the electroweak scale that it can be kinematically probed at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

We revisit the effective field theory of the standard model that is extended with sterile neutrinos, $N$. We examine the basis of complete and independent effective operators involving $N$ up to mass dimension seven (dim-7). By employing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-19 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

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 investigate systematically dimension-9 operators in the standard model effective field theory which contains only standard model fields and respects its gauge symmetry. With the help of the Hilbert series approach to classifying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-30 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

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

We compute the one-loop corrections to $Z$ decay properties from dimension-6 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that contribute also to anomalous 3-gauge boson couplings and examine the relative sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Sally Dawson , Ahmed Ismail