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The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) based on the unbroken gauge group $\text{SU(3)}_C\otimes\text{SU(2)}_L\otimes\text{U(1)}_Y$ and containing only particles of the Standard Model (SM) has developed in the last decade to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Jason Aebischer , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar

Projecting measurements of the interactions of the known Standard Model (SM) states into an effective field theory (EFT) framework is an important goal of the LHC physics program. The interpretation of measurements of the properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-19 Ilaria Brivio , Michael Trott

Electroweak precision observables (EWPO) measured at the W and Z poles provide stringent limits on possible beyond the Standard Model physics scenarios. In an effective field theory (EFT) framework, the next-to-leading order QCD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Sally Dawson , Pier Paolo Giardino

We present a calculation of the weak mixing angle in the $\overline{\rm\small MS}$ renormalization scheme which is relevant for experiments performed at very low energies or momentum transfers. We include higher orders in the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Jens Erler , Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández

We obtain SMEFT bounds using an approach that utilises the complete multi-dimensional differential information of a process. This approach is based on the fact that at a given EFT order, the full angular distribution in the most important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-12 Shankha Banerjee , Rick S. Gupta , Joey Y. Reiness , Satyajit Seth , Michael Spannowsky

We study the phenomenology of the simplest renormalisable model that, at low energy, leads to the effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with right-handed neutrinos ($\nu$SMEFT). Our aim is twofold. First, to contextualise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-29 Mikael Chala , Arsenii Titov

We review the status of precision measurements of weak neutral current interactions, mediated by the $Z^0$ boson, at $Q^2\ll M_Z^2$. They can be used to extract values for the weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_W$, a fundamental parameter of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-29 K. S. Kumar , Sonny Mantry , W. J. Marciano , P. A. Souder

We present Standard Model predictions for the complete set of phenomenologically relevant electroweak precision pseudo-observables related to the Z-boson: the leptonic and bottom-quark effective weak mixing angles $\sin^2\theta_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-13 Ievgen Dubovyk , Ayres Freitas , Janusz Gluza , Tord Riemann , Johann Usovitsch

The weak mixing angle is a probe of the vector-axial coupling structure of electroweak interactions. It has been measured precisely at the $Z$-pole by experiments at the LEP and SLD colliders, but its energy dependence above $M_Z$ remains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 Clara Lavinia Del Pio , Simone Amoroso , Mauro Chiesa , Ekaterina Lipka , Fulvio Piccinini , Federico Vazzoler , Alessandro Vicini

The next-to-leading order (NLO) Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) renormalization group equations are needed to account for phenomenologically relevant operator mixing and ensure renormalization scale independence in NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Lukas Born , Javier Fuentes-Martín , Anders Eller Thomsen

The precision electroweak program, including weak neutral current (WNC), $Z$-pole, and high energy collider experiments, has been the primary prediction and test of electroweak unification. It has established that the standard model (SM) is…

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

We constrain the flavor structure of Wilson coefficients in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) from data. In the SMEFT, new physics effects in couplings of up-type and down-type quarks are related through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sebastian Bruggisser , Danny van Dyk , Susanne Westhoff

Precision observables are well known for constraining most of the Beyond Standard Model (BSM) scenarios tightly. We present here a simple and comprehensive fitting framework for various BSM scenarios to these observables. We start with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Mathew Thomas Arun , Kuldeep Deka , Tripurari Srivastava

The persistent anomalies observed in $b \to s\,(\ell^+\ell^-,\,\nu\bar{\nu})$ transitions continue to provide strong motivation for exploring possible extensions of the Standard Model (SM). Motivated by these discrepancies, we present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Nilakshi Das , Rusa Mandal , Praveen S Patil

We summarize basic features associated to dynamical breaking of the electroweak symmetry. The knowledge of the phase diagram of strongly coupled theories as function of the number of colors, flavors and matter representation plays a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-27 Francesco Sannino

The search for effective field theory deformations of the Standard Model (SM) is a major goal of particle physics that can benefit from a global approach in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). For the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 John Ellis , Maeve Madigan , Ken Mimasu , Veronica Sanz , Tevong You

We reconsider the complete set of four-quark operators in the Weak Effective Theory (WET) for non-leptonic $\Delta F=1$ decays that govern $s\to d$ and $b\to d, s$ transitions in the Standard Model (SM) and beyond, at the Next-to-Leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Jason Aebischer , Christoph Bobeth , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar , Mikołaj Misiak

We present a map between the tree-level Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT) in the Warsaw basis and massive on-shell amplitudes. As a first step, we focus on the electroweak sector without fermions. We describe the Feynman rules for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Rafael Aoude , Camila S. Machado

Building upon the fundamental partial compositeness framework we provide consistent and complete composite extensions of the standard model. These are used to determine the effective operators emerging at the electroweak scale in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Helene Gertov , Francesco Sannino , Anders Eller Thomsen

A powerful aspect of effective field theories is connecting scales through renormalisation group (RG) flow. The anomalous dimension matrix of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) encodes clues to where to find relics of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-30 Camila S. Machado , Sophie Renner , Dave Sutherland