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The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a powerful theoretical framework for searching for subtle deviations from the Standard Model. In this talk, we present the results from a global fit of the dimension-6 operators of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-02 Maeve Madigan

Effective theories are well established theoretical frameworks to describe the effect of energetically widely separated UV models on observables at lower energy scales. Due to the complexity of the effective theory when taking all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Supratim Das Bakshi , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Michael Spannowsky

When integrating out unknown new physics sectors, what is the minimal character of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that can result? In this paper we focus on a particular aspect of this question: "How can one obtain only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-28 Yun Jiang , Michael Trott

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

The left-right model is a gauge theory of electroweak interactions based on the gauge symmetry SU(2)_R . The main motivations for this model are that it gives an explanation for the parity violation of weak interactions, provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Huitu , J. Maalampi , P. N. Pandita , K. Puolamaki , M. Raidal , N. Romanenko

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 study the phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments using the most general parametrisation of heavy new physics in the framework of Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT), as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Joachim Kopp , Zahra Tabrizi , Salvador Urrea

We develop a "precision-ready", model-independent EFT framework that connects general leptophilic gauge interactions to their low-energy manifestations in SMEFT and LEFT. Starting from a broad U(1)'_ell extension in which leptons carry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Seyit Okan Kara

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 organise the four-fermion vector current interactions below the weak scale -- i.e., in the low energy effective field theory (LEFT) -- into irreps of definite parity and $SU(N)$ flavour symmetry. Their coefficients are thus arranged into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Sophie Renner , Benjamin Smith , Dave Sutherland

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

Charged lepton-flavor violation is a null-test frontier of the Standard Model and a direct probe of physics beyond it. We present a global effective field theory (EFT) analysis across FCC-ee, ILC, CLIC, HL-LHC, HE-LHC, and muon colliders at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Nicolás Viaux M

We study the constraints on low-energy coefficients of the $\nu$SMEFT generalization of the Standard Model effective theory in the simple case of a $\text{U}(1)^\prime$ enlargement of the Standard Model gauge group. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-13 Pietro Colangelo , Fulvia De Fazio , Francesco Loparco , Nicola Losacco

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

We constrain general Dirac neutrino interactions based on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework extended with right-handed neutrinos $N$ (SMNEFT) using deep inelastic and coherent elastic neutrino scattering, nuclear beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Tao Han , Jiajun Liao , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

Charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) processes, potentially important for various Beyond the Standard Model Physics scenarios are analyzed in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. We consider the most relevant 2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 Md Isha Ali , Utpal Chattopadhyay , N Rajeev , Joydeep Roy

We perform a systematic study of lepton-number-violating (LNV) dimension-9 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that can mediate neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) at tree level, and map them to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Fabian Esser , Lukáš Gráf , Chandan Hati

The low-energy effective field theory is constructed by integrating out Standard Model states with masses proximate to the electroweak scale. We report the equations of motion for this theory, including corrections due to higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Andreas Helset , Michael Trott

We develop a framework for indirect discovery in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) based on Bayesian model selection over operator subsets. We argue that SMEFT should be understood as a structured space of competing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Luca Mantani

Motivated by additional experimental hints of Lepton Flavour Universality violation in B decays, both in charged- and in neutral-current processes, we analyse the ingredients necessary to provide a combined description of these phenomena.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Dario Buttazzo , Admir Greljo , Gino Isidori , David Marzocca