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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , José Wudka

Deviations from the Standard Model (SM) can be parameterized in terms of the SM effective field theory (SMEFT), which is typically truncated at dimension-6. Including higher dimension operators -- as well as considering simultaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-16 Konstantin Asteriadis , Sally Dawson , Duarte Fontes

We investigate the impact of effective interactions of dimension-8 (dim-8) operators in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) on neutral meson mixing, focusing on the $K^0-\bar K^0$, $B_{d,s}-\bar B_{d,s}$, and $D^0-\bar D^0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We present the computation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the $pp\to t\bar{t} H+X$ process in the di-lepton channel at the LHC, including relevant dimension-6 operators $({\cal O}_{t\phi}, \, {\cal O}_{\phi G},\, {\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Minos Reinartz , Malgorzata Worek

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

We investigate the impact of dimension-8 operators on $W^+W^-$ production at the LHC for the incoming gluon-gluon channel. To this end, we have identified all dimension-8 CP-even operators contributing to the process in question, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Daniel Gillies , Andrea Banfi , Adam Martin , Matthew A. Lim

We present a complete basis of dimension-8 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Attention is paid to operators that vanish in the absence of flavor structure. There are dimension-8 SMEFT 44,807 operators. We also briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 Christopher W. Murphy

The Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) is the tool of choice for studying deviations of Higgs couplings from the Standard Model predictions. The SMEFT is an expansion in an infinite tower of higher dimension operators, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Sally Dawson , Duarte Fontes , Samuel Homiller , Matthew Sullivan

We study Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion at the LHC, focusing on the process $pp \to H + jj$ and capturing the leading energy-enhanced contributions within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) up to order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Benoît Assi , Adam Martin

We present a parton-level study of electro-weak production of vector-boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider, establishing the sensitivity to a set of dimension-six operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Different…

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

We perform a global analysis of Drell-Yan production of charged leptons and dineutrinos, the latter in missing energy plus jet events, in proton-proton collisions within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The combination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Gudrun Hiller , Lara Nollen , Daniel Wendler

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

In this article, we examine the validity range of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) description of high-energy Drell-Yan processes at the LHC. To this purpose, we consider explicit mediators that contribute to these processes in the $s$- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Lukas Allwicher , Darius A. Faroughy , Matheus Martines , Olcyr Sumensari , Felix Wilsch

We present a complete and independent set of dimension-7 operators in the low energy effective field theory (LEFT) where the dynamical degrees of freedom are the standard model five quarks and all of the neutral and charged leptons. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Quan-Yu Wang

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

In this contribution to the Snowmass 2021 process we review theoretical developments in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with a focus on effects at the dimension-8 level and beyond. We review the theoretical advances that…

We derive the dimension-8 standard-model effective theory (SMEFT) contact terms relevant for vector-pair production at the LHC and lepton colliders. We first list the relevant dimension-8 massless SMEFT amplitudes, and then obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-06 Jared M Goldberg , Hongkai Liu , Yael Shadmi

We investigate systematically dimension-9 operators in the standard model effective field theory which contains only standard model fields and respects its gauge symmetry. With the help of the Hilbert series approach to classifying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-30 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

We present a complete list of the independent dimension-7 operators that are constructed using the Standard Model degrees of freedom and are invariant under the Standard Model gauge group. This list contains only 20 independent operators;…

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