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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

Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particles. The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) augmented with these new fields is known as the $\nu$SMEFT. We present the first code for solving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Jason Aebischer , Tejhas Kapoor , Jacky Kumar

The Fermi effective theory of the weak interaction helped identify the structure of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, and the chiral effective Lagrangian pointed towards QCD as the theory of the strong interactions. The Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-01 John Ellis

We explore the impact of Renormalisation Group (RG) effects in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) interpretations of LHC measurements. We implement the RG running and mixing for the Wilson coefficients as obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-21 Rafael Aoude , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer , Claudio Severi , Eleni Vryonidou

Theories of new physics often involve a large number of unknown parameters which need to be scanned. Additionally, a putative signal in a particular channel may be due to a variety of distinct models of new physics. This makes experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 James S. Gainer , Joseph Lykken , Konstantin T. Matchev , Stephen Mrenna , Myeonghun Park

The search for effective field theory deformations of the Standard Model (SM) is a major goal of particle physics that can benefit from a global approach in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). For the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 John Ellis , Maeve Madigan , Ken Mimasu , Veronica Sanz , Tevong You

A simple reweighting scheme is proposed for Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particle systems, permitting one to study various parameter values in a single study, and improving efficiency by an order of magnitude. Unlike earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald Dickman

We present techniques for estimating the effects of systematic uncertainties in unbinned data analyses at the LHC. Our primary focus is constraining the Wilson coefficients in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT), but the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-15 Robert Schöfbeck

Bayesian estimation is increasingly popular for performing model based inference to support policymaking. These data are often collected from surveys under informative sampling designs where subject inclusion probabilities are designed to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-13 Luis G. Leon-Novelo , Terrance D. Savitsky

In inference problems involving a multi-dimensional parameter $\theta$, it is often natural to consider decision rules that have a risk which is invariant under some group $G$ of permutations of $\theta$. We show that this implies that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-01 Erik van Zwet

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a powerful theoretical framework for searching for subtle deviations from the Standard Model. In this talk, we present the results from a global fit of the dimension-6 operators of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-02 Maeve Madigan

We discuss how the experimental information from longitudinal single-spin asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ boson production in polarised proton-proton collisions can be included in a polarised parton determination by Bayesian reweighting of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-11 Emanuele R. Nocera

Two different techniques for adding additional data sets to existing global fits using Bayesian reweighting have been proposed in the literature. The derivation of each reweighting formalism is critically reviewed. A simple example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Nobuo Sato , J. F. Owens , Harrison Prosper

We study inclusive semileptonic $\bar{B}\to X_c \ell \bar{\nu}$ decays ($\ell = e,\mu$) in the presence of generic physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) that is heavy compared to the $b$-quark mass. Its effect is encoded in the Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Alexandre Carvunis , Gael Finauri , Paolo Gambino , Martin Jung , Sandro Mächler

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on domain-specific data is the dominant approach for adapting foundation models to specialized tasks. However, it has been observed that SFT models tend to forget knowledge acquired during pretraining. In vision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yifan Hao , Xingyuan Pan , Hanning Zhang , Chenlu Ye , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

A set of constructs, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), i.e. how the influence of higher energy processes is localizable in a few structural properties which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Giampiero Passarino

Interpreting measurements requires a physical theory, but the theory's accuracy may vary across the experimental domain. To optimize experimental design, and so to ensure that the substantial resources necessary for modern experiments are…

We recently developed a Bayesian framework for parameter estimation in general effective field theories. Here we present selected results from using that framework to estimate parameters with a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential derived using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-15 S. Wesolowski , R. J. Furnstahl , J. A. Melendez , D. R. Phillips

We present a global analysis of lepton-flavor-specific operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), combining data from collider and flavor physics experiments. We systematically explore various lepton-flavor scenarios,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Cornelius Grunwald , Gudrun Hiller , Kevin Kröninger , Lara Nollen

We study the constraints on low-energy coefficients of the $\nu$SMEFT generalization of the Standard Model effective theory in the simple case of a $\text{U}(1)^\prime$ enlargement of the Standard Model gauge group. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-13 Pietro Colangelo , Fulvia De Fazio , Francesco Loparco , Nicola Losacco