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The $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ invariance of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) imposes relations among different low-energy effective field theory Wilson coefficients (WCs), any deviations from which would signal the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Siddhartha Karmakar , Amol Dighe

Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) can be described in a consistent and general way through the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT). Measurements of model-independent HEFT coefficients allow one to constrain the parameter space of BSM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-29 Sally Dawson , Duarte Fontes , Carlos Quezada-Calonge , Juan José Sanz-Cillero

One of the assumptions of simplified models is that there are a few new particles and interactions accessible at the LHC and all other new particles are heavy and decoupled. The effective field theory (EFT) method provides a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Shekhar Adhikari , Ian M. Lewis , Matthew Sullivan

As an important step towards a complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD analysis of the ratio $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), we present for the first time the NLO master formula for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Jason Aebischer , Christoph Bobeth , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar

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

Probing heavy new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) increasingly relies on global effective field theory (EFT) likelihoods. We introduce differentiable, multi-scale EFT likelihoods that combine renormalization-group evolution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Aleks Smolkovič , Peter Stangl

A model-independent anatomy of $\Delta F= 2$ transitions in the context of the Weak Effective Theory (WET) below the electroweak scale (EW) and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) above the EW scale is discussed. Two master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Jason Aebischer

We present the results of the first complete one-loop matching calculation between the real singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model and the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at dimension six. Beyond their immediate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Minyuan Jiang , Nathaniel Craig , Ying-Ying Li , Dave Sutherland

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

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

The general real singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM), the RxSM, is one of the simplest theories Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) that can accommodate a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Johannes Braathen , Sven Heinemeyer , Carlos Pulido Boatella , Alain Verduras Schaeidt

The complex singlet extension CxSM of the Standard Model (SM) is a simple extension of the SM with two visible Higgs bosons in the spectrum and a Dark Matter (DM) candidate. In this paper we complete the computation of the next-to-leading…

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Higgs decays to gauge boson pairs are a crucial ingredient in the study of Higgs properties, with the decay $H\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ being particularly sensitive to new physics effects. Assuming all potential new physics occurs at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-26 Sally Dawson , Pier Paolo Giardino

Semileptonic $b\to c\tau\bar{\nu}_{\tau}$ decays are powerful probes of non-Standard-Model effects within an effective-field-theory (EFT) framework, but fully exploiting them in current and future data demands combinations that maximise…

We present a Bayesian analysis of the implications for new physics in semileptonic $b\to s$ transitions after including new measurements of $R_K$ at LHCb and new determinations of $R_{K^*}$ and $R_{K^{*+}}$ at Belle. We perform global fits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Kamila Kowalska , Dinesh Kumar , Enrico Maria Sessolo

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) offers a systematic approach to study potential deviations from the Standard Model (SM) through higher-dimensional operators that encapsulate new physics effects. In this work, we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Luca Mantani , Veronica Sanz

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the spectrum of particles in the Standard Model (SM) is complete. It is more important than ever to perform precision measurements and to test for deviations from SM predictions in the electroweak…

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

We discuss how to experimentally study the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) sector by observing $WW \to WW$ interactions in the TeV region. We discuss some general features of the event structure in the signal and the background events.…

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