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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 study the correlation between the value of the triple Higgs coupling and the nature of the electroweak phase transition. We use an effective potential approach, including higher order, non-renormalizable terms coming from integrating out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Peisi Huang , Aniket Joglekar , Bing Li , Carlos E. M. Wagner

We investigate model independent top-quark corrections to $\Delta F = 2$ processes for the down-type quarks within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Dimension-six $\Delta F = 1$ operators contribute to them through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-08 Motoi Endo , Teppei Kitahara , Daiki Ueda

We study the production of Higgs bosons at high transverse momenta via vector-boson fusion (VBF) in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We find that contributions from four independent operator combinations dominate in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-22 Jack Y. Araz , Shankha Banerjee , Rick S. Gupta , Michael Spannowsky

We study Higgs-boson pair production in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) up to dimension six and in the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) at leading order in the effective theory expansion, and assess which description is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Íñigo Asiáin , Ramona Gröber , Lorenzo Tiberi

Precise predictions for Higgs decays are a crucial ingredient of the search for beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is a valuable tool for quantifying deviations from the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-14 Luigi Bellafronte , Sally Dawson , Clara Del Pio , Matthew Forslund , Pier Paolo Giardino

The $U(3)^5$ symmetry within the SMEFT framework restricts the inclusion of only fully flavor-conserving operators at dimension six. This proceeding presents a global analysis of the SMEFT under this assumption. We provide global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-17 Riccardo Bartocci

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

The gauge-invariant operators up to dimension six in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale are classified. There are 70 Hermitian dimension-five and 3631 Hermitian dimension-six operators that conserve baryon and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-21 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Peter Stoffer

We study standard electroweak/Higgs processes at the high-energy lepton colliders ILC and CLIC. We identify a subset of three operators in the SMEFT that give leading contributions to these processes at high energies. We then perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-24 Shankha Banerjee , Rick S. Gupta , Oscar Ochoa-Valeriano , Michael Spannowsky

The calculation of precise predictions for Higgs decays is a necessary ingredient for determining Higgs properties at the LHC and future colliders. We compute all two- and three-body Higgs decays at next-to-leading order (NLO) in both QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Luigi Bellafronte , Sally Dawson , Clara Del Pio , Matthew Forslund , Pier Paolo Giardino

Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

We explore the sensitivity of Tevatron data to heavy new physics effects in differential dijet production rates using the SMEFT in light of the fact that consistent and conservative constraints from the LHC cannot cover relatively low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Eduard Keilmann , William Shepherd

We perform an updated fit to LHC Higgs data and LEP electroweak precision tests in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We assume a generic structure of the SMEFT operators without imposing any flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Adam Falkowski , David Straub

We use dijet measurements from the Large Hadron Collider to constrain ten third-generation four-quark operators in the Standard Model effective field theory. At tree level, only the five operators involving four bottom quarks are directly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Maximilian Freiheit , Ulrich Haisch

The Higgs self-couplings remain only weakly constrained by current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) measurements, leaving ample room for physics beyond the Standard Model that could modify the structure of the Higgs potential. Multi-Higgs…

We develop the geometric formulation of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Using this approach we derive all-orders results in the $\sqrt{2 \langle H^\dagger H \rangle}/\Lambda$ expansion relevant for studies of electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-12 Andreas Helset , Adam Martin , Michael Trott

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

We perform a parameter fit in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with an emphasis on using regularized linear regression to tackle the issue of the large number of parameters in the SMEFT. In regularized linear regression a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Christopher W. Murphy

With no direct evidence for new physics at the TeV scale, deviations from the Standard Model (SM) can be explored systematically through Effective Field Theories (EFTs) such as the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT). SMEFT extends the SM by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Dongwon Kim