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Di-Higgs ($hh$) production is crucial for probing the Higgs boson self-interaction and understanding the electroweak phase transition. Deviations from Standard Model predictions in $hh$ gluon-gluon fusion (ggF) can be systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 L. Cadamuro , T. Ingebretsen Carlson , J. Sjölin

It is well known that the electroweak phase transition (EWPhT) in extensions of the Standard Model with one real scalar singlet can be first-order for realistic values of the Higgs mass. We revisit this scenario with the most general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jose R. Espinosa , Thomas Konstandin , Francesco Riva

Measurements carried out or reinterpreted within the framework of effective field theory (EFT) will constitute a key component of the LHC legacy in the quest towards physics beyond the standard model. Numerous EFT measurements were already…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-22 Nicolas Tonon

We verify Standard Model Effective Field Theory Ward identities to one loop order when background field gauge is used to quantize the theory. The results we present lay the foundation of next to leading order automatic generation of results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Tyler Corbett , Michael Trott

We examine how sub-leading results in the operator and loop expansion for $\sigma(\mathcal{G} \mathcal{G} \rightarrow h)$ in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) inform theoretical error estimates when studying this production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 Adam Martin , Michael Trott

We introduce matchmakereft, a fully automated tool to compute the tree-level and one-loop matching of arbitrary models onto arbitrary effective theories. Matchmakereft performs an off-shell matching, using diagrammatic methods and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Adrian Carmona , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Pablo Olgoso , Jose Santiago

Effective field theory is an effective approach to parameterizing effects of high energy scale physics in low energy measurements. The two popular frameworks for physics beyond the standard model are the so-called standard model effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Yoshiki Uchida

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 present a combined analysis of LHC Higgs data (signal strengths) together with LEP-2 WW production measurements. To characterize possible deviations from the Standard Model (SM) predictions, we employ the framework of an Effective Field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-13 Adam Falkowski , Martin Gonzalez-Alonso , Admir Greljo , David Marzocca

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 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

In this contribution to the Snowmass 2021 process we review theoretical developments in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with a focus on effects at the dimension-8 level and beyond. We review the theoretical advances that…

We establish the bounds on Wilson coefficients of the Higgs effective field theory (HEFT) mandated by unitarity and analyticity. These positivity constraints can be projected into the space of the standard model effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Grant N. Remmen , Nicholas L. Rodd

In particle physics, the modern view is to categorize things in terms of effective field theories (EFTs). Above the weak scale, we have the SMEFT, formed when the heavy new physics (NP) is integrated out, and for which the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Serge Hamoudou , Jacky Kumar , David London

A model-independent anatomy of $\Delta F= 2$ transitions in the context of the Weak Effective Theory (WET) below the electroweak scale (EW) and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) above the EW scale is discussed. Two master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Jason Aebischer

Event generation with neural networks has seen significant progress recently. The big open question is still how such new methods will accelerate LHC simulations to the level required by upcoming LHC runs. We target a known bottleneck of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Mathias Backes , Anja Butter , Tilman Plehn , Ramon Winterhalder

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

Truncations of effective field theory expansions are technically necessary but inherently intertwined with the redundancies of general field redefinitions. This can be viewed as a juxtaposition of power-counting and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Rodrigo Alonso , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

We present a detailed analysis of strong first-order electroweak phase transitions within the extension of the Standard Model by a complex scalar singlet (cxSM). Focusing on the impact of renormalization scale and gauge dependence, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Thomas Biekötter , Andrii Dashko , Maximilian Löschner , Georg Weiglein

If supersymmetry is observed at the LHC its model parameters can be measured at the electroweak scale. We discuss the expected precision on the parameter determination, including a proper treatment of experimental and theoretical errors.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-03 Claire Adam , Jean-Loic Kneur , Remi Lafaye , Tilman Plehn , Michael Rauch , Dirk Zerwas