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We study the on-shell version of the Higgs mechanism in effective theories (EFTs) containing particles of different spins, focusing on contact terms as a simple starting point. We derive the massive contact terms and their coefficients from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-29 Reuven Balkin , Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

We derive the contact terms contributing to the four-point amplitudes of the standard-model particles, keeping terms with up to quartic energy growth. Imposing just the unbroken low-energy symmetry, and treating the electroweak gauge bosons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yael Shadmi , Michael Waterbury

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) capture effects from heavy dynamics at low energy and represent an essential ingredient in the context of Standard Model (SM) precision tests. This document gathers a number of relevant scenarios for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 D. Marzocca , F. Riva , J. Criado , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , B. Henning , D. Liu , C. Murphy , M. Perez-Victoria , J. Santiago , L. Vecchi , Lian-Tao Wang

We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson pair production in vector boson fusion, including the leading operators in the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT). The corresponding calculation is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Jens Braun , Pia Bredt , Gudrun Heinrich , Marius Höfer

After the Higgs boson discovery, LHC can be used as a precision machine to explore its properties. Indeed, in case new resonances will not be found, the only access to New Physics would be via measuring small deviations from the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-16 Massimiliano Grazzini , Agnieszka Ilnicka , Michael Spira , Marius Wiesemann

Effective Field Theories offer a consistent bottom-up approach to parametrise small deviations from Standard Model predictions. In this work we report on the application of the Effective Field Theory to shed light on effects from high-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-26 Massimiliano Grazzini , Agnieszka Ilnicka , Michael Spira , Marius Wiesemann

We present results of precision calculations for di-Higgs production that combine NLO QCD corrections with operators at canonical dimension six within Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We discuss possible options for operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-02 Jannis Lang

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

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a consistent framework for comparing precision measurements at the LHC to the Standard Model. The observation of statistically significant non-zero SMEFT coefficients would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-27 Sally Dawson , Samuel Homiller , Samuel D. Lane

A set of constructs, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), i.e. how the influence of higher energy processes is localizable in a few structural properties which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Giampiero Passarino

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 make a first matching of the real Higgs triplet extension (RHTE) of the standard model to the Higgs effective field theory (HEFT), which is also known as electroweak chiral Lagrangian (EWChL). In the RHTE, the ratio $\xi$ of two VEVs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Huayang Song , Xia Wan

We construct Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) based on the scalar manifold H^n, which is a hyperbolic space of constant negative curvature. The Lagrangian has a non-compact O(n,1) global symmetry group, but it gives a unitary theory as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Rodrigo Alonso , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

This proceedings presents a concise overview of the Higgs boson's charge-conjugation and parity (CP) properties and constraints on Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators, derived from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…

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One of the assumptions of simplified models is that there are a few new particles and interactions accessible at the LHC and all other new particles are heavy and decoupled. The effective field theory (EFT) method provides a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Shekhar Adhikari , Ian M. Lewis , Matthew Sullivan

The detection of production of a pair of Higgs bosons before the end of LHC operation would be clear evidence of New Physics (NP). As searches for non-resonant production of Higgs pairs are being designed it is of particular importance to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-24 Alexandra Carvalho , Florian Goertz , Ken Mimasu , Maxime Gouzevitch , Anamika Aggarwal

Multiboson production provides a unique way to probe Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) and physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the default model is that EWSB occurs according to the Higgs…

Recently, the Higgs boson masses in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and their mixing have been calculated using the complex Two-Higgs-DoubletModel (cTHDM) as an effective field theory (EFT) of the MSSM. Here, we discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Henning Bahl , Nick Murphy , Heidi Rzehak

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…

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