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We present a novel strategy to uncover indirect signs of new physics in collider data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, offering notably improved sensitivity compared to traditional global analyses. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Martin Hirsch , Luca Mantani , Veronica Sanz

We study dimension-eight effects in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory extended by right-handed neutrinos ($\nu$SMEFT). Using the Hilbert series formalism, we derive the complete basis of dimension-eight operators and confirm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Manimala Mitra , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Subham Saha , Michael Spannowsky

The effective field theory approach parameterizes the low energy behaviors of all possible ultraviolet (UV) theories in a systematic way. One of the most important tasks is thus to find the connection between the effective operators and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 Hao-Lin Li , Yu-Han Ni , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu

Nowadays, the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a standard framework to parameterize potential deviations from the Standard Model and to combine information from multiple processes in global analyses. This review…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 A. Aleshko , E . Boos , V. Bunichev , L. Dudko

We derive bounds on couplings in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) as a consequence of causality and the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes. In the SMEFT, there are 64 independent operators at mass dimension eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Grant N. Remmen , Nicholas L. Rodd

In this paper, we continue to construct the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the canonical seesaw models, which are natural extensions of the Standard Model (SM) to accommodate tiny but nonzero neutrino masses. Different from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-11 Xu Li , Di Zhang , Shun Zhou

We formalize energy-scaling arguments in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to estimate effects of operators up to dimension ten. Introducing a classification based on the number of external legs and an energy-counting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Benoît Assi , Adam Martin

We present the Standard Model Effective Field Theories (SMEFT) from purely on-shell arguments. Starting from a few basic assumptions such as Poincar\'e invariance and locality, we classify all the renormalisable and non-renormalisable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Accettulli Huber , Stefano De Angelis

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and the Low Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT) can be extended by adding additional spin 0, 1/2 and 1 dark matter particles which are singlets under the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-13 Jason Aebischer , Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

We discuss the conditions for an effective field theory (EFT) to give an adequate low-energy description of an underlying physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Starting from the EFT where the SM is extended by dimension-6 operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-08 Roberto Contino , Adam Falkowski , Florian Goertz , Christophe Grojean , Francesco Riva

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) based on the unbroken gauge group $\text{SU(3)}_C\otimes\text{SU(2)}_L\otimes\text{U(1)}_Y$ and containing only particles of the Standard Model (SM) has developed in the last decade to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Jason Aebischer , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar

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

In the effective field theory (EFT), the positivity bound on dim-8 effective operators tells us that the $s^2$ contribution in the scattering amplitude of 2-to-2 process geometrically corresponds to the convex cone composed of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Chengjie Yang , Zhe Ren , Jiang-Hao Yu

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

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

This note gives an overview of the tools for the precision matching of ultraviolet theories to the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at the tree level and one loop. Several semi- and fully automated codes are presented, as well…

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

Heavy neutral gauge bosons arise in many motivated models of Beyond the Standard Model Physics. Experimental searches require that such gauge bosons are above the TeV scale in most models which means that the tools of effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Sally Dawson , Matthew Forslund , Marvin Schnubel

We derive the dimension-8 standard-model effective theory (SMEFT) contact terms relevant for vector-pair production at the LHC and lepton colliders. We first list the relevant dimension-8 massless SMEFT amplitudes, and then obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-06 Jared M Goldberg , Hongkai Liu , Yael Shadmi

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…