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Global analyses in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework serve as a tool to probe potential directions of new physics. To break degeneracies between the Wilson coefficients of the SMEFT, it is essential to combine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-16 Riccardo Bartocci , Anke Biekötter , Tobias Hurth

This paper presents a computer code for analyzing electroweak precision data (EWPD) in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), highlights the importance of recent ATLAS and CMS precision measurements, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Hannes Mildner

Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particles. The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) augmented with these new fields is known as the $\nu$SMEFT. We present the first code for solving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Jason Aebischer , Tejhas Kapoor , Jacky Kumar

The shift in focus towards searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) employing model-independent Effective Field Theory (EFT) methods necessitates a rigorous approach to matching to guarantee the validity of the obtained results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a powerful, model-independent framework to explore deviations from the Standard Model (SM) by parametrising potential new physics through higher-dimensional operators. This thesis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Álvaro Díaz-Carmona

This note gives an overview of the tools for the precision matching of ultraviolet theories to the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at the tree level and one loop. Several semi- and fully automated codes are presented, as well…

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 present a novel strategy to uncover indirect signs of new physics in collider data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, offering notably improved sensitivity compared to traditional global analyses. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Martin Hirsch , Luca Mantani , Veronica Sanz

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

We define a data exchange format for numerical values of Wilson coefficients of local operators parameterising low-energy effects of physics beyond the Standard Model. The format facilitates interfacing model-specific Wilson coefficient…

In this letter, we test clipping effective field theory (EFT) simulations as a method of ensuring EFT validity. The procedure imposes that, at the level of the simulation, the invariant mass of a $W^+W^-$ pair $M_{WW}$ is less than the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Daniel Gillies , Andrea Banfi , Adam Martin

Effective Field Theories are an established framework to bridge the gap between UV and low energy theories. In the context of the Standard Model, the bottom-up approach extends its operator set and thus equips us to astutely probe its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-23 Supratim Das Bakshi , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

The Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides a general framework to include the dynamics of the beyond standard model physics residing at a certain higher energy scale $\Lambda$. We study the top-quark production along with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Monoranjan Guchait , Arnab Roy

We present for the first time a model-independent anatomy of the ratio $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ in the context of the $\Delta S = 1$ effective theory with operators invariant under QCD and QED and in the context of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-08 Jason Aebischer , Christoph Bobeth , Andrzej J. Buras , David M. Straub

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 use the Fitmaker tool to incorporate the recent CDF measurement of $m_W$ in a global fit to electroweak, Higgs, and diboson data in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) including dimension-6 operators at linear order. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Emanuele Bagnaschi , John Ellis , Maeve Madigan , Ken Mimasu , Veronica Sanz , Tevong You

This article traces the origins of Kenneth Wilson's conception of effective field theories (EFTs) in the 1960s. I argue that what really made the difference in Wilson's path to his first prototype of EFT are his long-standing pragmatic…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Sébastien Rivat

We present a general method of constructing unfactorizable on-shell amplitudes (amplitude basis), and build up their one-to-one correspondence to the independent and complete operator basis in effective field theory (EFT). We apply our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao

The scattering of dark matter particles off nuclei in direct detection experiments can be described in terms of a multidimensional effective field theory (EFT). A new systematic analysis technique is developed using the EFT approach and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 H. E. Rogers , D. G. Cerdeno , P. Cushman , F. Livet , V. Mandic

We present analytic results for electroweak precision observables (EWPO) at next-to-leading order (NLO) in dimension-six SMEFT, with no assumptions on the flavour structure of SMEFT Wilson coefficients. The results are given in five…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-12 Anke Biekötter , Benjamin D. Pecjak