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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

We present a package for FeynRules which derives the Feynman rules for the Standard Model Effective Field Theory up to dimension-six using the background field method for gauge fixing. The package includes operators which shift the kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 T. Corbett

The search for New Physics requires ever increasing precision from experimental and theoretical efforts. Within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, the latest achievement in this quest has been the complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Luca Mantani , Pablo Olgoso , Alejo N. Rossia

The anomalous dimensions of dimension-six operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) respect holomorphy to a large extent. The holomorphy conditions are reminiscent of supersymmetry, even though the SMEFT is not a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-31 Rodrigo Alonso , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

We study constraints on the effective field theory (EFT) from the relative entropy between two theories: we refer to these as target and reference theories. The consequence of the non-negativity of the relative entropy is investigated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Qing-Hong Cao , Naoto Kan , Daiki Ueda

In the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), operators involving the top quark are generally difficult to probe, and can generate sizable loop contributions to the electroweak precision observables, measured by past and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Yiming Liu , Yuhao Wang , Cen Zhang , Lei Zhang , Jiayin Gu

We perform a complete study of the electroweak precision observables and electroweak gauge boson pair production in terms of the SMEFT up to ${\cal O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ under the assumption of universal, C and P conserving new physics. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Tyler Corbett , Jay Desai , O. J. P. Eboli , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Matheus Martines , Peter Reimitz

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) provide a framework for capturing the effects of yet unseen heavy degrees of freedom in a model-independent manner. However, constructing a complete and minimal set of operators, especially at higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Magnus C. Schaaf

We study single top quark production in association with a lepton-neutrino pair at the LHC within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We focus on relevant two-quark-two-lepton operators ($O^{3}_{lq}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Reza Goldouzian , Michael D. Hildreth

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

Based on the framework of Standard Model Effective Field Theory, we performed a few global fits, each containing a subset of dimension-6 operators, for the measurements that are expected at future colliders. The fit for the Higgs and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-22 Jorge de Blas , Yong Du , Christophe Grojean , Jiayin Gu , Victor Miralles , Michael E. Peskin , Junping Tian , Marcel Vos , Eleni Vryonidou

We present a first, consistent combination of measurements from top-quark and $B$ physics to constrain top-quark properties within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Stefan Bißmann , Johannes Erdmann , Cornelius Grunwald , Gudrun Hiller , Kevin Kröninger

We present a complete list of the dimension 8 operator basis in the standard model effective field theory using group theoretic techniques in a systematic and automated way. We adopt a new form of operators in terms of the irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

Despite the remarkable success of the Standard Model in describing fundamental interactions, unresolved phenomena such as dark matter, dark energy, and matter-antimatter asymmetry strongly suggest the existence of physics beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Michał Ryczkowski

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

Effective field theories (EFTs) provide a powerful framework to parametrise unknown aspects of possible ultraviolet (UV) physics. For scalar fields in de Sitter space, however, new emergent phenomena can arise when the cut-off scale of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Sebastian Cespedes , Zhehan Qin , Dong-Gang Wang

In this work we investigate the most general non-minimally coupled $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric scalar-tensor effective field theory (EFT) of gravity up to dimension six in the operator expansion. The most general action is presented along with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Callum Hunter , Michael Kenna-Allison

We present a model-independent anatomy of the $\Delta F=2$ transitions $K^0-\bar K^0$, $B_{s,d}-\bar B_{s,d}$ and $D^0-\bar D^0$ in the context of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We present two master formulae for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Jason Aebischer , Christoph Bobeth , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar

Recently the CDF collaboration at the Tevatron reported a significant discrepancy between the direct measurement of the $W$-boson mass and its Standard Model (SM) prediction based on electroweak precision tests (EWPTs). In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 JiJi Fan , Lingfeng Li , Tao Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu

We present the basis of dimension-eight operators associated with universal theories. We first derive a complete list of independent dimension-eight operators formed with the Standard Model bosonic fields characteristic of such universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Tyler Corbett , Jay Desai , O. J. P. Eboli , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia