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Consistent Searches for SMEFT Effects in Non-Resonant Dilepton Events
Stefan AlteMatthias KönigWilliam Shepherdsubject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics530 PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesEffective Field Theories10192 Physics InstituteHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Beyond Standard Modellcsh:QC770-798lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity3106 Nuclear and High Energy Physicsdescription
Employing the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, we perform a detailed reinterpretation of measurements of the Weinberg angle in dilepton production as a search for new-physics effects. We truncate our signal prediction at order $1/\Lambda^2$, where $\Lambda$ denotes the new-physics mass scale, and introduce a theory error to account for unknown contributions of order $1/\Lambda^4$. Two linear combinations of four-fermion operators with distinct angular behavior contribute to dilepton production with growing impact at high energies. We define suitable angular observables and derive bounds on those two linear combinations using data from the Tevatron and the LHC. We find that the current data is able to constrain interesting regions of parameter space, with important contributions at lower cutoff scales from the Tevatron, and that the future LHC data will eventually be able to simultaneously constrain both independent linear combinations which contribute to dilepton production.
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2019-07-01 |