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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

These proceedings review the status of present and future bounds on muonic lepton flavour violating transitions in the context of an effective-field theory defined below the electroweak scale. A specific focus is set on the phenomenology of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Giovanni Marco Pruna

The Mu2e experiment will search for the neutrino-less conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. An observation would be the first signal of charged lepton flavor violation and de facto evidence for new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 Manolis Kargiantoulakis

We analyse the recent hints of Lepton Flavor Universality violations in semi-leptonic $B$ decays within a general EFT based on a $U(2)^n$ flavor symmetry acting on the light generations of SM fermions. We analyse in particular the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Marzia Bordone , Gino Isidori , Sokratis Trifinopoulos

In this work we assess the potential of discovering new physics by searching for lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) decays of the $Z$ boson, $Z\to \ell_i \ell_j$, at the proposed circular $e^+e^-$ colliders CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Lorenzo Calibbi , Xabier Marcano , Joydeep Roy

The observation of neutrino oscillations and masses motivates the extension of the standard model with right handed neutrinos, leading to heavy neutrino states possibly in the electroweak scale, which could be impacted by new high-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Zapata , Tomás Urruzola , Oscar A. Sampayo , Lucía Duarte

In supersymmetric models new sources of lepton flavour violation (LFV) may enhance the rates of charged lepton flavour violating processes, like mu to e gamma, and generate distinct final states at future colliders, e.g. tau mu + jets +…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kalinowski

We consider lepton flavour violating decays of the top quark, mediated by four-fermion operators. We compile constraints on a complete set of SU(3)*U(1)-invariant operators, arising from their loop contributions to rare decays and from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Sacha Davidson , Michelangelo L. Mangano , Stephane Perries , Viola Sordini

Lepton flavor-violating processes offer interesting possibilities to probe new physics at multi-TeV scale. We discuss those in the framework of effective field theory, emphasizing the role of gluonic operators. Those operators are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-09 Alexey A. Petrov , Dmitry V. Zhuridov

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

Events containing one or more top quarks produced with additional prompt leptons are used to search for new physics within the framework of an effective field theory (EFT). The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 41.5 fb$^{-1}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-16 CMS Collaboration

Leveraging recent advancements in machine learning-based flavor tagging, we develop an optimal analysis for measuring the hadronic cross-section ratios $R_b$, $R_c$, and $R_s$ at the FCC-ee during its $WW$, $Zh$, and $t\bar{t}$ runs. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Admir Greljo , Hector Tiblom , Alessandro Valenti

We investigate CP-violating effects in electroweak interactions at future high-energy muon colliders within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. Focusing on four dimension-six CP-odd operators -- $…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Qing-Hong Cao , Jian-Nan Ding , Yandong Liu , Jin-Long Yuan

Charged lepton flavor violating processes are unobservable in the standard model, but they are predicted to be enhanced in several extensions to the standard model, including supersymmetry and models with leptoquarks or compositeness. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 The BABAR Collaboration , B. Aubert

The discovery of neutrino oscillations and masses provides strong motivation to extend the Standard Model by including right-handed neutrinos, which lead to heavy neutrino states that could exist at the electroweak scale. These states may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Lucía Duarte , Daniel Chalençon Maisian , Tomás Urruzola

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) is a widely utilized framework for exploring new physics effects in a model-independent manner. In previous studies, Drell-Yan collider data has emerged as a promising signature due to its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Gudrun Hiller , Lara Nollen , Daniel Wendler

We examine the charged lepton flavor violating process $gg \rightarrow \mu^\pm \tau^\mp$ at the $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV LHC. Operators generating this process can be induced by new physics (NP) at dimension 8. Despite the power suppression…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-10 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Robert Morgan , James Osborne , Alexey A. Petrov

The search for lepton flavour violation in charged lepton decays is highly sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. Among the possible processes, $\mu$-decays are considered to have the largest discovery potential in most of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 Luca Galli

We point out that extensions of the Standard Model with low scale (~TeV) lepton number violation (LNV) generally lead to a pattern of lepton flavor violation (LFV) experimentally distinguishable from the one implied by models with GUT scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Cirigliano , A. Kurylov , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf , P. Vogel

We develop a formalism to study the implications of causality on OPE coefficients in conformal field theories with large central charge and a sparse spectrum of higher spin operators. The formalism has the interpretation of a new conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini