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The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) theoretical framework is increasingly used to interpret particle physics measurements and constrain physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate the truncation of the effective-operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Chris Hays , Andreas Helset , Adam Martin , Michael Trott

We present an efficient algorithm for determining the Hilbert series of an effective theory and provide a companion code called ECO (Efficient Counting of Operators) in FORM. For example, the Hilbert series for the dimension 15 operators in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Coenraad B. Marinissen , Rudi Rahn , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We present a novel framework for carrying out global analyses of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at dimension-six: SMEFiT. This approach is based on the Monte Carlo replica method for deriving a faithful estimate of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Nathan P. Hartland , Fabio Maltoni , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo , Emma Slade , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

Effective field theory is applied to finite-density systems with an unnaturally large scattering length, such as neutron matter. A new organizational scheme is identified and connected with an expansion in inverse powers of the number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James V. Steele

We present the automation of one-loop computations in the standard-model effective field theory at dimension six. Our general implementation, dubbed SMEFT@NLO, covers all types of operators: bosonic, two- and four-fermion ones. Included…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 Céline Degrande , Gauthier Durieux , Fabio Maltoni , Ken Mimasu , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

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 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

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 investigate constraints on couplings of Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) operators contributing to $Wtb$ effective vertex at tree level. We study the one-loop level impact of these couplings on the low-energy flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Subhajit Kala , Lipika Kolay , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Soumitra Nandi

Linear Standard Model (SM) extensions, defined as new particles that can couple linearly to SM fields, form a motivated and finite set of simplified models for exploring phenomenology Beyond the SM (BSM). Heavy BSM particles may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 John Gargalionis , Jérémie Quevillon , Pham Ngoc Hoa Vuong , Tevong You

The Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) is a well understood alternative to the Standard Model of particle physics. If the new particles included in the 2HDM are at an energy scale much greater than the weak scale, the theory can be matched to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-15 Supratim Das Bakshi , Sally Dawson , Duarte Fontes , Samuel Homiller

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

The renormalization of higher-dimensional operators in quantum field theory is essential for phenomenological analyses in particle physics, and plays a significant role in the study of critical phenomena. We present a framework for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Guilherme Guedes , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

We examine how sub-leading results in the operator and loop expansion for $\sigma(\mathcal{G} \mathcal{G} \rightarrow h)$ in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) inform theoretical error estimates when studying this production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 Adam Martin , Michael Trott

We perform a loop-level analysis of charged-current (CC) processes involving light leptons and quarks within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). This work is motivated by the high precision reached in experiment and Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Maria Dawid , Vincenzo Cirigliano , Wouter Dekens

We study the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure for cosmic density and momentum fields. We show that the finite part of the two-loop calculation and its counterterms introduce an apparent scale dependence for the leading order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-08 Tobias Baldauf , Lorenzo Mercolli , Matias Zaldarriaga

I summarise a method to quantitatively assess the consistency of power-counting proposals in Effective Field Theories which are non-perturbative at leading order. It uses the fact that the Renormalisation Group evolution of an observable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-05 Harald W. Griesshammer

We calculate the one- and two-loop matching corrections in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) that impact electroweak precision measurements and flavour physics observables, focusing on the contributions of third-generation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-17 Ulrich Haisch , Luc Schnell

This note gives an overview of the tools for predicting expectations in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at the tree level and one loop available through event generators. Methods of event reweighting, the separate…

In a recent paper [1] a master formula has been presented for the power counting of a general effective field theory. We first show that this master formula follows immediately from the concept of chiral dimensions (loop counting), together…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-11 G. Buchalla , O. Cata , A. Celis , C. Krause