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In the context of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) the next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) QCD corrections to the Higgsstrahlungs ($Vh$) processes in hadronic collisions are calculated and matched to a parton shower (PS).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-12 Rhorry Gauld , Ulrich Haisch , Luc Schnell

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 study the inclusion of $\mathcal O(1/\Lambda^4)$ effects in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory in fits to the current Drell-Yan data at the LHC. Our analysis includes the full set of dimension-6 and dimension-8 operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Radja Boughezal , Emanuele Mereghetti , Frank Petriello

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 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

The framework of standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides a relatively model-agnostic tool with which to parameterize the off-shell effects of potential heavy new physics. In the top quark sector, the ATLAS and CMS experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-22 Kelci Mohrman

We calculate $pp \to \ell^{+}\nu, \ell^-\bar \nu$ to ${\cal{O}}(1/\Lambda^4)$ within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. In particular, we calculate the four-fermion contribution from dimension six and eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Taegyun Kim , Adam Martin

In this work we study the matching between the two most popular effective field theories for beyond standard model Higgs physics, SMEFT and HEFT. To perform this matching we follow the approach of identifying the corresponding scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 D. Domenech , M. Herrero , R. A. Morales , A. Salas-Bernárdez

Given the absence of direct evidence for new resonances beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) so far, a complementary strategy to search for new physics in an indirect way is provided by the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Jaco ter Hoeve

We study the electroweak first-order electroweak phase transition (FO-EWPT) within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework induced by dimension-6 operators. Such phenomena can be probed independently via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Sahabub Jahedi , Indrajit Saha , Abhik Sarkar

Even though the Standard Model (SM) is weakly coupled at the Fermi scale, a new strong dynamics involving its degrees of freedom may conceivably lurk at slightly higher energies, in the multi TeV range. Approximate symmetries provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Da Liu , Alex Pomarol , Riccardo Rattazzi , Francesco Riva

We present the NLO (two-loop) QCD corrections to Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion within Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT), including also squared dimension-6 operators and double insertions of operators. The different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-19 Gudrun Heinrich , Jannis Lang , Ludovic Scyboz

We present a global interpretation of Higgs, diboson, and top quark production and decay measurements from the LHC in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at dimension six. We constrain simultaneously 36…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Jacob J. Ethier , Giacomo Magni , Fabio Maltoni , Luca Mantani , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo , Emma Slade , Eleni Vryonidou , Cen Zhang

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic framework to probe indirect effects of heavy new physics via precision measurements. While SMEFT constraints have been extensively studied using purely leptonic $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Zijian Wang , Tianyi Yang , Tianyu Mu , Andrew Levin , Qiang Li

We study vector boson pair production at $LHC$ and $SSC$, taking into account the effects generated by the anomalous vector boson and Higgs couplings induced by the operators ${\cal O}_W$ and ${\cal O}_{UW}$, which are the only dim=6…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 J. Layssac , F. M. Renard , G. Gounaris

We investigate the impact of dimension-8 operators on $W^+W^-$ production at the LHC for the incoming gluon-gluon channel. To this end, we have identified all dimension-8 CP-even operators contributing to the process in question, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Daniel Gillies , Andrea Banfi , Adam Martin , Matthew A. Lim

We consider the associated production of a Higgs boson and a photon in weak boson fusion in the Standard Model (SM) and the Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT), with the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks. Analysing events…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Anke Biekötter , Raquel Gomez-Ambrosio , Parisa Gregg , Frank Krauss , Marek Schönherr

We investigate the bounds which can be placed on generic new-physics contributions to dijet production at the LHC using the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, deriving the first consistently-treated EFT bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 Stefan Alte , Matthias König , William Shepherd

The effective Lagrangian formalism provides a way to study the new physics effects at the electroweak scale. We study the Higgs pair production via the vector-boson fusion (VBF) at the Large Hadron Collider within the framework of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-12 Ling Liu-Sheng , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Guo Lei , Wang Shao-Ming

We discuss the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SM-EFT) contributions to neutral- and charge-current Drell-Yan production, associated production of the Higgs and a vector boson, and Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Simone Alioli , Wouter Dekens , Michael Girard , Emanuele Mereghetti