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The existence of right-handed neutrinos, or heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), is strongly motivated by the observation of neutrino masses and mixing. The mass of these new particles could lie below the electroweak scale, making them accessible…

We review the status of calculations in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) beyond leading order (LO). Improving the SMEFT beyond LO allows theoretical errors to be characterized and reduced when considering SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-27 Giampiero Passarino , Michael Trott

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

In the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ symmetry of the Standard Model is linearly realized. However, it is possible that more general effective field theories, such as the Higgs Effective Field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Siddhartha Karmakar , Susobhan Chattopadhyay , Amol Dighe

The observation of neutrino oscillations and masses motivates the extension of the standard model with right handed neutrinos, leading to heavy neutrino states possibly in the electroweak scale, which could be impacted by new high-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Zapata , Tomás Urruzola , Oscar A. Sampayo , Lucía Duarte

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

Observation of lepton number violation would represent a groundbreaking discovery with profound consequences for fundamental physics and as such, it has motivated an extensive experimental program searching for neutrinoless double beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Kåre Fridell , Lukáš Gráf , Julia Harz , Chandan Hati

The matching of specific new physics scenarios onto the SMEFT framework is a well-understood procedure. The inverse problem, the matching of the SMEFT to UV scenarios, is more difficult and requires the development of new methods to perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-11 Ricardo Cepedello , Fabian Esser , Martin Hirsch , Veronica Sanz

We calculate one loop $y_t$ and $\lambda$ dependent corrections to $\bar{\Gamma}_Z,\bar{R}_f^0$ and the partial $Z$ widths due to dimension six operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), including finite terms. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-12 Christine Hartmann , William Shepherd , Michael Trott

We study ultra-violet completions for operators in standard model effective field theory extended with right-handed neutrinos ($N_R$SMEFT). Using a diagrammatic method, we generate systematically lists of possible tree-level completions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Rebeca Beltrán , Ricardo Cepedello , Martin Hirsch

In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Tong Li , Xiao-Dong Ma , Michael A. Schmidt

The framework of standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides a relatively model-agnostic tool with which to parameterize the off-shell effects of potential heavy new physics. In the top quark sector, the ATLAS and CMS experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-22 Kelci Mohrman

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a consistent framework for comparing precision measurements at the LHC to the Standard Model. The observation of statistically significant non-zero SMEFT coefficients would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-27 Sally Dawson , Samuel Homiller , Samuel D. Lane

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is a widely utilized framework for exploring new physics effects in a model-independent manner. In previous studies, Drell-Yan collider data has emerged as a promising signature due to its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Gudrun Hiller , Lara Nollen , Daniel Wendler

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

Baryon number is an accidental symmetry of the Standard Model at the Lagrangian level. Its violation is arguably one of the most compelling phenomena predicted by physics beyond the Standard Model. Furthermore, there is a large experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Arnau Bas i Beneito , John Gargalionis , Juan Herrero-Garcia , Arcadi Santamaria , Michael A. Schmidt

In the Standard Model (SM), electroweak (EW) corrections become significant at high energies, particularly at the tera-electronvolt scale and beyond, due to the presence of Sudakov logarithms. At these energy scales, the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hesham El Faham , Ken Mimasu , Davide Pagani , Claudio Severi , Eleni Vryonidou , Marco Zaro

In this paper we consider semileptonic lepton flavor violating operators of the type $q^2l^2$ in low energy effective theory (LEFT). At the chiral scale, we match these operators to chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT) and place…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-15 Mathew Thomas Arun , Priyanka Lamba , Sudhir K. Vempati

This is the first paper of our systematic efforts on lepton number violating (LNV) hadronic decays in the effective field theory approach. These decays provide information complementary to popular nuclear neutrinoless double-$\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

This is a sequel to our recent work [1] in which we calculated the lepton number violating (LNV) $K^\pm$ decays due to contact dimension-9 (dim-9) quark-lepton effective interactions that are induced at a high energy scale. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang