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The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a robust framework for probing deviations in the couplings of Standard Model particles from their theoretical predictions. This framework relies on an expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Nilabhra Adhikary , Tisa Biswas , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Michael Spannowsky

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

The gauge-invariant operators up to dimension six in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale are classified. There are 70 Hermitian dimension-five and 3631 Hermitian dimension-six operators that conserve baryon and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-21 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Peter Stoffer

We discuss the conditions for an effective field theory (EFT) to give an adequate low-energy description of an underlying physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Starting from the EFT where the SM is extended by dimension-6 operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-08 Roberto Contino , Adam Falkowski , Florian Goertz , Christophe Grojean , Francesco Riva

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) offers a powerful theoretical framework for parameterizing the low-energy effects of heavy new particles with masses far above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additional light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-17 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner

Projecting measurements of the interactions of the known Standard Model (SM) states into an effective field theory (EFT) framework is an important goal of the LHC physics program. The interpretation of measurements of the properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-19 Ilaria Brivio , Michael Trott

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

Precision observables are well known for constraining most of the Beyond Standard Model (BSM) scenarios tightly. We present here a simple and comprehensive fitting framework for various BSM scenarios to these observables. We start with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Mathew Thomas Arun , Kuldeep Deka , Tripurari Srivastava

The use of the SMEFT Lagrangian to quantify possible Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) effects is standard in LHC and future collider studies. One of the usual assumptions is to truncate the expansion with the dimension-$6$ operators. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Sally Dawson , Samuel Homiller , Matthew Sullivan

In the Standard Model, baryon number is an accidental symmetry, whose violation would constitute unambiguous evidence of new physics, with proton decay providing its most prominent experimental signature. At the same time, the peculiar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Arnau Bas i Beneito , Ajdin Palavrić , Andrea Sainaghi

Heavy neutral gauge bosons arise in many motivated models of Beyond the Standard Model Physics. Experimental searches require that such gauge bosons are above the TeV scale in most models which means that the tools of effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Sally Dawson , Matthew Forslund , Marvin Schnubel

We propose the creation of a Light Exotics Effective Field Theory (LEX-EFT) catalog. LEX-EFT is a generic framework to capture all interactions between the Standard Model (SM) and all (or at least a large class of) theoretically allowed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-14 Linda M. Carpenter , Taylor Murphy , Matthew J. Smylie

The Standard Model (SM) is the best description of fundamental particles and their interactions we have to date. From this theory, all phenomena in the macroscopic world (except for gravity) can be explained, and it has successfully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Joan Ruiz-Vidal

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 formulate an Effective Field Theory (EFT) for Non Standard neutrino Interactions (NSI) in elastic scattering with light quarks, leptons, gluons and photons, including all possible operators of dimension 5, 6 and 7. We provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

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

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 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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Kin Mimouni

Future neutron-antineutron ($n$-$\bar n$) oscillation experiments, such as at the European Spallation Source and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, aim to find first evidence of baryon number violation. We investigate implications of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Christophe Grojean , Bibhushan Shakya , James D. Wells , Zhengkang Zhang