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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…

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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

We present a comprehensive reassessment of perturbative unitarity bounds in the dimension-six Standard Model Effective Field Theory, exploiting a new formalism based on spinor-helicity techniques to derive partial-wave unitarity bounds for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Luigi C. Bresciani , Paride Paradisi , Andrea Sainaghi

The precise measurement of the Higgs boson properties requires a robust framework to parametrize possible deviations from Standard Model (SM) predictions in the most model-independent way possible. The Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Ramona Gröber , Alejo N. Rossia , Michał Ryczkowski

The positivity bounds, derived from the axiomatic principles of quantum field theory (QFT), constrain the signs of Wilson coefficients and their linear combinations in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kimiko Yamashita , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

New physics interactions beyond the Standard Model can make themselves known as small corrections to Standard Model reactions. There is a diverse array of proposals for new physics, and so any parametrization of those effects must be as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-12 Michael E. Peskin

New sources of charge-parity (CP) violation beyond those described in the Standard Model (SM) are required to explain the observed matter--antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-27 Avalon Roberts , Patrick Dougan , Alexander Oh , Savanna Shaw

We establish the bounds on Wilson coefficients of the Higgs effective field theory (HEFT) mandated by unitarity and analyticity. These positivity constraints can be projected into the space of the standard model effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Grant N. Remmen , Nicholas L. Rodd

The standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides systematic parameterization of all possible new physics above the electroweak scale. According to the amplitude-operator correspondence, an effective operator can be decomposed into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Hao-Lin Li , Yu-Han Ni , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu

Employing the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, we perform a detailed reinterpretation of measurements of the Weinberg angle in dilepton production as a search for new-physics effects. We truncate our signal prediction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefan Alte , Matthias König , William Shepherd

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) theoretical framework is increasingly used to interpret particle physics measurements and constrain physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate the truncation of the effective-operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Chris Hays , Andreas Helset , Adam Martin , Michael Trott

Modified interactions in the electroweak sector may lead to scattering amplitudes that grow with energy compared to their Standard Model (SM) counterparts. We present a detailed study of all $2\to2$ scattering amplitudes involving at least…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-18 Fabio Maltoni , Luca Mantani , Ken Mimasu

We study four top quark production at hadron colliders in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We perform an analysis at the tree-level, including all possible QCD- and EW-coupling orders and relevant dimension-six operators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Rafael Aoude , Hesham El Faham , Fabio Maltoni , Eleni Vryonidou

We derive the causality and unitarity constraints on dimension 6 and dimension 8 Gluon field strength operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In the first part of the paper, we use the 'amplitude analysis' i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Diptimoy Ghosh , Rajat Sharma , Farman Ullah

Sum rules in effective field theories, predicated upon causality, place restrictions on scattering amplitudes mediated by effective contact interactions. Through unitarity of the $S$-matrix, these imply that the size of higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-05 Timothy Trott

We employ a geometric framework to compute the leading high-energy behaviour of tree-level scattering amplitudes in theories containing $N$ Nambu-Goldstone bosons and a single Higgs-like scalar with an arbitrary potential $V$. Using these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Rodrigo Alonso , Susobhan Chattopadhyay , James Ingoldby

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

It is well-known but sometimes overlooked that constraints on the oblique parameters (most notably $S$ and $T$ parameters) are generally speaking only applicable to a special class of new physics scenarios known as universal theories. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 James D. Wells , Zhengkang Zhang

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

Probing the properties of the discovered Higgs boson may tell us whether or not it is the same particle as the one predicted by the Standard Model. To this aim we parametrize deviations of the Higgs couplings to matter from the Standard…

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