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We compile information from low-energy observables sensitive to flavor-conserving 4-fermion operators with two or four leptons. Our analysis includes data from e+e- colliders, neutrino scattering on electron or nucleon targets, atomic…

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We obtain constraints on four-lepton interactions in the effective field theory with dimension-6 operators. To this end, we combine the experimental input from Z boson measurements in LEP-1, W boson mass and decays, muon and tau decays,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Adam Falkowski , Kin Mimouni

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

Lepton flavor-violating processes offer interesting possibilities to probe new physics at multi-TeV scale. We discuss those in the framework of effective field theory, emphasizing the role of gluonic operators. Those operators are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-09 Alexey A. Petrov , Dmitry V. Zhuridov

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

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

We investigate flavour violating four Fermi Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators of dimension-six that can be probed via $tc ~(\bar{t}c+t\bar{c})$ production at the multi-TeV muon collider. We study different FCNC and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Soumitra Nandi , Abhik Sarkar

The observed pattern of mixing in the neutrino sector may be explained by the presence of a non-Abelian, discrete flavour symmetry broken into residual subgroups at low energies. Many flavour models require the presence of Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Lukas Heinrich , Holger Schulz , Jessica Turner , Ye-Ling Zhou

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

Analyticity and unitarity constrain certain classe of new physics models by linking flavor-conserving and flavor-violating four-fermion interactions. In this work, we explore how these theoretical relations impact flavor-violating rare top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Zev Balme , Christopher M. Donohue , Stefania Gori , Siddharth Vignesh Mukundhan

Charged lepton flavor violation arises in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory at mass dimension six. The operators that induce neutrinoless muon and tauon decays are among the best constrained and are sensitive to new-physics scales…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-15 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili

We discuss flavor violation in large N Composite Higgs models. We focus on scenarios in which the masses of the standard model fermions are controlled by hierarchical mixing parameters, as in models of Partial Compositeness. We argue that a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Luca Vecchi

A popular approximation in lattice gauge theory is an extrapolation in the number of fermion species away from the four fold degeneracy natural with the staggered fermions formulation. I show that at finite lattice spacing and for an odd…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Creutz

The conservation of lepton flavor is a prediction of the Standard Model and is still an excellent approximate symmetry despite our observation of neutrino oscillations. Lepton flavor violation by one or two units have been discussed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili , Anil Thapa

The CP properties of effective operators are closely related to the spacetime and internal symmetries, such as the flavor symmetry, in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). In this work, we utilize the flavor symmetry to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 Hao Sun , Jiang-Hao Yu

In this letter I analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity on the flavor central charges of four-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ SCFTs with general reductive global symmetry groups. I derive several general and far-reaching consequences of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Christopher Beem

We perform a global analysis of the bounds from charged lepton flavour violating observables to new physics. We parametrize generic new physics through the Effective Field Theory formalism and perform global fits beyond the common…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Enrique Fernández-Martínez , Xabier Marcano , Daniel Naredo-Tuero

We analyse how $U(3)^5$ and $U(2)^5$ flavour symmetries act on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, providing an organising principle to classify the large number of dimension-six operators involving fermion fields. A detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Darius A. Faroughy , Gino Isidori , Felix Wilsch , Kei Yamamoto

We study the flavor structure of the lepton and baryon number--conserving dimension-6 operators in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). Building on the work of [1], we define several well-motivated flavor symmetries and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-26 Admir Greljo , Ajdin Palavrić , Anders Eller Thomsen

Motivated by the recent hints of lepton flavour non-universality in $B$-meson semi-leptonic decays, we study the constraints of perturbative unitarity on the new physics interpretation of the anomalies in $b \to c \ell \bar \nu$ and $b \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-10 Luca Di Luzio , Marco Nardecchia
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