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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

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

In this paper we present a global fit of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) dimension six operators relevant to the top quark sector to currently available data. Experimental measurements include parton-level top-pair and single top production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Andy Buckley , Christoph Englert , James Ferrando , David J. Miller , Liam Moore , Michael Russell , Chris D. White

In this paper, we continue to construct the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the canonical seesaw models, which are natural extensions of the Standard Model (SM) to accommodate tiny but nonzero neutrino masses. Different from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-11 Xu Li , Di Zhang , Shun Zhou

In recent times, SMEFT, along with a superlative repertoire of theoretical and computational tools, has emerged as an efficacious platform to test the viability of proposed BSM scenarios. With symmetry as the backbone, higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Wrishik Naskar , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

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

The scalar singlet model extends the Standard Model with the addition of a new gauge singlet scalar. We re-examine the limits on the new scalar from oblique parameter fits and from a global fit to precision electroweak observables and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Sally Dawson , Pier Paolo Giardino , Samuel Homiller

We study top-antitop pair production in proton-proton collisions within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at dimension 6. We focus on the top chromomagnetic operator $C_{tG}$ together with the four-quark operators relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Kaan Şimşek

We present a new way to interpret Top Standard Model measurements going beyond the SMEFT framework. Instead of the usual paradigm in Top EFT, where the main effects come from tails in momenta distributions, we propose an interpretation in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-26 André Lessa , Verónica Sanz

Standard Model Neutrino Effective Field Theory (SMNEFT) is an effective theory with Standard Model (SM) gauge-invariant operators constructed only from SM and right-handed neutrino fields. For the full set of dimension-six SMNEFT operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Alakabha Datta , Jacky Kumar , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

We derive constraints on dimension-six light-quark dipole operators within the Standard Model (SM) effective field theory, based on measurements of $Z$ production at SLC and LEP, as well as $Z$+jet production at the LHC. Our new constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-07 R. Gauld , U. Haisch , J. Weiss

The weak gravity conjecture has been invoked to conjecture that the dimensions of charged operators in a CFT should obey a superadditivity relation (sometimes referred to as convexity). In this paper, we study superadditivity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Timothy Cohen , Ipak Fadakar , Andrew Gomes , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We present a convex geometry perspective to the Effective Field Theory (EFT) parameter space. We show that the second $s$ derivatives of the forward EFT amplitudes form a convex cone, whose extremal rays are closely connected with states in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We calculate the full set of next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to $h\to b\bar{b}$ decay in the dimension-6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Our calculation forms the basis for precision studies of this decay mode in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Jonathan M. Cullen , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Darren J. Scott

We present a complete and non-redundant basis of effective operators for the Standard Model Effective Field Theory up to mass dimension 12 with three generations of fermions. We also include operators coupling to gravity via the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 R. V. Harlander , T. Kempkens , M. C. Schaaf

We calculate one loop contributions to $\Gamma(h \rightarrow \gamma \, \gamma)$ from higher dimensional operators, in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Some technical challenges related to determining Electroweak one loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-12 Christine Hartmann , Michael Trott

We for the first time identify all the dimension-8 (dim-8) SMEFT operators that can have an interference with the SM with $E^4/\Lambda^4$ enhancement in the high energy limit for the processes $q\bar{q}\to WW/WZ$. Our results therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Céline Degrande , Hao-Lin Li

We write down a geometric realization of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) extended by $n_f$ flavours of light sterile neutrinos, a so-called geo$\nu$SMEFT. As with the geoSMEFT introduced by Helset, Martin and Trott, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Jim Talbert

We present an alternative method for carrying out a principal-component analysis of Wilson coefficients in standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). The method is based on singular-value decomposition (SVD). The SVD method provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-03 Geoffrey T. Bodwin , Hee Sok Chung

We present a parton-level study of electro-weak production of vector-boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider, establishing the sensitivity to a set of dimension-six operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Different…