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We construct Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) based on the scalar manifold H^n, which is a hyperbolic space of constant negative curvature. The Lagrangian has a non-compact O(n,1) global symmetry group, but it gives a unitary theory as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Rodrigo Alonso , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

Vector boson scatterings are fundamental processes to shed light on the nature of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. Deviations from the Standard Model predictions on the corresponding observables can be interpreted in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Kozow , L. Merlo , S. Pokorski , M. Szleper

We calculate the total and partial inclusive Higgs widths at leading order in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We report results incorporating SMEFT corrections for two and four body Higgs decays through vector currents in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-10 Ilaria Brivio , Tyler Corbett , Michael Trott

We present the complete one-loop matching of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) onto the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), considering the most general case for the MSSM with conserved $R$-parity, which has 124…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Sabine Kraml , Andre Lessa , Suraj Prakash , Felix Wilsch

We discuss the validity of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SM EFT) as the low-energy effective theory for the two-Higgs-doublet Model (2HDM). Using the up-to-date Higgs signal strength measurements at the LHC, one can obtain a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Hermès Bélusca-Maïto , Adam Falkowski , Duarte Fontes , Jorge C. Romão , João P. Silva

We investigate the bounds which can be placed on generic new-physics contributions to dijet production at the LHC using the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, deriving the first consistently-treated EFT bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 Stefan Alte , Matthias König , William Shepherd

We formulate a generalization of Higgs effective field theory (HEFT) including arbitrary number of extra neutral and charged Higgs bosons (generalized HEFT, GHEFT) to describe non-minimal electroweak symmetry breaking models. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Ryo Nagai , Masaharu Tanabashi , Koji Tsumura , Yoshiki Uchida

In this work we study the matching between the two most popular effective field theories for beyond standard model Higgs physics, SMEFT and HEFT. To perform this matching we follow the approach of identifying the corresponding scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 D. Domenech , M. Herrero , R. A. Morales , A. Salas-Bernárdez

Composite Higgs and neutral-naturalness models are popular scenarios in which the Higgs boson is a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, and naturalness problem is addressed by composite top partners. Since the standard model effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Hao-Lin Li , Ling-Xiao Xu , Jiang-Hao Yu , Shou-Hua Zhu

We consider the Higgs sector in extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model by higher-dimension operators in the superpotential and the K\"ahler potential, in the context of Higgs searches at the LHC 7 TeV run. Such an effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Marcela Carena , Eduardo Ponton , Jose Zurita

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

We study the production of Higgs bosons at high transverse momenta via vector-boson fusion (VBF) in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We find that contributions from four independent operator combinations dominate in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-22 Jack Y. Araz , Shankha Banerjee , Rick S. Gupta , Michael Spannowsky

As there seems to be a large mass gap between the SM and new physics particles, the EFT framework emerges as the natural approach for the analysis and interpretation of collider data. However, this large gap and the fact that (so far) all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-23 J. J. Sanz-Cillero

Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) is deployed to study elastic vector-boson scattering at the high LHC energies. The interaction is strong over most of the parameter space, with the minimal Standard Model being a remarkable exception.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 Antonio Dobado , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Rafael L. Delgado

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) capture effects from heavy dynamics at low energy and represent an essential ingredient in the context of Standard Model (SM) precision tests. This document gathers a number of relevant scenarios for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 D. Marzocca , F. Riva , J. Criado , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , B. Henning , D. Liu , C. Murphy , M. Perez-Victoria , J. Santiago , L. Vecchi , Lian-Tao Wang

We consider the 2 Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) and compare two effective field theory (EFT) approaches to it, according to whether the heavy degrees of freedom are integrated out before (SMEFT) or after (HEFT) spontaneous symmetry breaking.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Sally Dawson , Duarte Fontes , Carlos Quezada-Calonge , Juan José Sanz-Cillero

We present a framework for carrying out global analyses of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory: SMEFiT. This approach is based on the Monte Carlo replica method, widely used in the case of NNPDF fits of the proton structure, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 Emma Slade

Precise predictions for Higgs decays are a crucial ingredient of the search for beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is a valuable tool for quantifying deviations from the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-14 Luigi Bellafronte , Sally Dawson , Clara Del Pio , Matthew Forslund , Pier Paolo Giardino

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

We present the Standard Model Effective Field Theories (SMEFT) from purely on-shell arguments. Starting from a few basic assumptions such as Poincar\'e invariance and locality, we classify all the renormalisable and non-renormalisable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Accettulli Huber , Stefano De Angelis