English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing Electroweak Precision Physics via boosted …

200 papers

In the context of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT), we study the LHC sensitivity to four fermion operators involving heavy quarks by employing cross section measurements in the $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ final state. Starting from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-26 Jorgen D'Hondt , Alberto Mariotti , Ken Mimasu , Seth Moortgat , Cen Zhang

In the absence of a concrete discovery of new physics at the LHC, global analyses of the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) are important to find and describe the impact of new physics beyond the energy reach of the LHC. Among…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Reza Goldouzian , Michael D. Hildreth

Colliders continue to push our understanding of electroweak (EW) interactions to ever higher energies. At high energies, many observables in the broken EW theory are expected to approach the unbroken theory. This is the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Ian M. Lewis , Zhen Liu , Ishmam Mahbub

We perform a parameter fit in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with an emphasis on using regularized linear regression to tackle the issue of the large number of parameters in the SMEFT. In regularized linear regression a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Christopher W. Murphy

Given the absence of direct evidence for new resonances beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) so far, a complementary strategy to search for new physics in an indirect way is provided by the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Jaco ter Hoeve

We present a parton-level study of electro-weak production of vector-boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider, establishing the sensitivity to a set of dimension-six operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Different…

As the search for observable deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics remains to be of significant interest, effective field theory (EFT) continues to be a popular method to parametrize such effects. In this work, a first-time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Nordin Breugelmans , Felix Heyen , Jorgen D'Hondt , Michael Tytgat , Gerrit Van Onsem

We study the production of three electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC, in the effective field theory of the standard model, at dimension six and next-to-leading order in QCD. We present results for inclusive cross-sections and differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Eugenia Celada , Gauthier Durieux , Ken Mimasu , Eleni Vryonidou

Constraints on Wilson coefficients (WCs) corresponding to dimension-six operators of the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) are determined from a simultaneous fit to seven sets of CMS measurements probing Higgs boson, electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-06 CMS Collaboration

Multiboson production provides a unique way to probe Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) and physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the default model is that EWSB occurs according to the Higgs…

We study Higgs-boson pair production in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) up to dimension six and in the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) at leading order in the effective theory expansion, and assess which description is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Íñigo Asiáin , Ramona Gröber , Lorenzo Tiberi

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

There are two canonical approaches to treating the Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory (EFT): Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), expressed in the electroweak symmetric phase utilizing the Higgs doublet, and Higgs EFT (HEFT), expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic framework to probe indirect effects of heavy new physics via precision measurements. While SMEFT constraints have been extensively studied using purely leptonic $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Zijian Wang , Tianyi Yang , Tianyu Mu , Andrew Levin , Qiang Li

A promising avenue to perform precision tests of the SM at the LHC is to measure differential cross-sections at high invariant mass, exploiting in this way the growth with the energy of the corrections induced by heavy new physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-11 Roberto Franceschini , Giuliano Panico , Alex Pomarol , Francesco Riva , Andrea Wulzer

We study the measurement of Higgs boson self-couplings through $2\rightarrow 3$ vector boson scattering (VBS) processes in the framework of Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at both proton and lepton colliders. The SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-03 Junmou Chen , Chih-Ting Lu , Yongcheng Wu

At the LHC, top quarks can be produced singly with a sizeable rate via electroweak interactions. This process probes a limited set of top-quark electroweak couplings, i.e. , the same entering the top-quark decay, yet at higher scales and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Celine Degrande , Fabio Maltoni , Ken Mimasu , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

We investigate the impact of electroweak corrections and effective field theory operators on $W^+W^-$ production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Utilizing the Standard Model effective-field theory (SMEFT) framework, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-03 Shankha Banerjee , Daniel Reichelt , Michael Spannowsky

Precise measurements of SM particles properties at the LHC allows to look for heavy New Physics in the context of an Effective Field Theory (EFT). These searches, however, often rely on kinematic regions where the validity of the EFT may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-16 Martin Gorbahn , Jose Miguel No , Veronica Sanz

We investigate the sensitivity of a future high-luminosity $e^-e^+$ collider operating at $\sqrt{s}=250~\text{GeV}$ to CP-violating and CP-conserving anomalous $hVV$ interactions via the Higgsstrahlung process. The effects of new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Amir Subba , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Abhik Sarkar