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We perform global fits within Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) combining top-quark pair production processes and decay with $b\rightarrow s$ flavor changing neutral current transitions and $Z \to b \bar b$ in three stages:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Stefan Bißmann , Cornelius Grunwald , Gudrun Hiller , Kevin Kröninger

There have been several important recent developments in precision electroweak tests. These include: the new LEP energy scan during the 1993 run; the first high-precision results on the left-right asymmetry from the SLD Collaboration at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Langacker

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework to describe possible deviations from general relativity through higher-curvature corrections to the gravitational action, capturing low-energy effects of an underlying fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Takamasa Kanai

This is a sequel to our recent work [1] in which we calculated the lepton number violating (LNV) $K^\pm$ decays due to contact dimension-9 (dim-9) quark-lepton effective interactions that are induced at a high energy scale. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We present the projected sensitivity to non-relativistic Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators for Dark Matter (DM) direct detection using the QUEST-DMC experiment. QUEST-DMC employs superfluid Helium-3 as a target medium and measures…

We define "constructed observables" as relating experimental measurements to terms in a Lagrangian while simultaneously making assumptions about possible deviations from the Standard Model (SM), in other Lagrangian terms. Ensuring that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Trott

The CMS experiment is a multi-purpose detector successfully operated at the LHC where predominantly pp collisions take place at various centre-of-mass energies up to sqrt(s)=8 TeV so far. Several weeks per year also heavy-ion collisions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-08-19 Lars Sonnenschein

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is constrained by current LHC data. Supposedly extensions of the Standard Model (SM) involving heavy particles can be constrained by matching onto the SMEFT. However, the reliability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Manuel Drees , Cong Zhang

We calculate the $\mathcal{O}(\langle H^{\dagger} H \rangle^{2} / \Lambda^{4} )$ corrections to LEP electroweak precision data using the geometric formulation of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We report our results in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Tyler Corbett , Andreas Helset , Adam Martin , Michael Trott

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) attempts to amend some of the shortcomings of the traditional perturbative methods used in cosmology. It models the evolution of long-wavelength perturbations above a cutoff…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Mandar Karandikar , Cristiano Porciani , Oliver Hahn

Several methods for the determination of the mass of the top quark with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. All dominant decay channels of the top quark can be explored. The measurements are in most cases dominated by systematic…

New physics, that is too heavy to be produced directly, can leave measurable imprints on the tails of kinematic distributions at the LHC. We use energetic QCD processes to perform novel measurements of the Standard Model (SM) Effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-27 Simone Alioli , Marco Farina , Duccio Pappadopulo , Joshua T. Ruderman

We investigate the impact of electroweak corrections and effective field theory operators on $W^+W^-$ production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Utilizing the Standard Model effective-field theory (SMEFT) framework, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-03 Shankha Banerjee , Daniel Reichelt , Michael Spannowsky

This proceedings presents a concise overview of the Higgs boson's charge-conjugation and parity (CP) properties and constraints on Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators, derived from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Haijun Yang

We assess the status of a wide class of WIMP dark matter (DM) models in light of the latest experimental results using the global fitting framework $\textsf{GAMBIT}$. We perform a global analysis of effective field theory (EFT) operators…

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 implement electroweak renormalisation schemes involving the effective weak mixing angle to NLO in Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). After developing the necessary theoretical machinery, we analyse a select set of electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-15 Anke Biekötter , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Tommy Smith

I detail an optimistic future vision for the use of SMEFT at high-energy colliders, and describe the use of the studies which could result for interpretation of future models. I also explore some of the potential pitfalls which could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 William Shepherd

The study of the top quark has a central role for both the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production differential cross section, in particular, is sensitive to existence of new resonances, it is a stringent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-31 Federica Fabbri

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky