scholarly journals Parametrized classifiers for optimal EFT sensitivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyu Chen ◽  
Alfredo Glioti ◽  
Giuliano Panico ◽  
Andrea Wulzer
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Learning ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Analytic Description ◽  
Leptonic Decays ◽  
Learning Classifier ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Standard Model Amplitude ◽  
Theory Framework

Abstract We study unbinned multivariate analysis techniques, based on Statistical Learning, for indirect new physics searches at the LHC in the Effective Field Theory framework. We focus in particular on high-energy ZW production with fully leptonic decays, modeled at different degrees of refinement up to NLO in QCD. We show that a considerable gain in sensitivity is possible compared with current projections based on binned analyses. As expected, the gain is particularly significant for those operators that display a complex pattern of interference with the Standard Model amplitude. The most effective method is found to be the “Quadratic Classifier” approach, an improvement of the standard Statistical Learning classifier where the quadratic dependence of the differential cross section on the EFT Wilson coefficients is built-in and incorporated in the loss function. We argue that the Quadratic Classifier performances are nearly statistically optimal, based on a rigorous notion of optimality that we can establish for an approximate analytic description of the ZW process.

scholarly journals Probing the nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix at the CEPC

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (33) ◽  
pp. 1644006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Antusch ◽  
Oliver Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Performance Parameters ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mixing Matrix ◽  
Theory Framework

The nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix is a generic signal of new physics aiming at the generation of the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the Minimal Unitarity Violation (MUV) scheme, an effective field theory framework which represents the class of extensions of the Standard Model (SM) by heavy neutral leptons, and discuss the present bounds on the nonunitarity parameters as well as estimates for the sensitivity of the CEPC, based on the performance parameters from the preCDR.

scholarly journals Consistent QFT description of non-standard neutrino interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Falkowski ◽  
Martín González-Alonso ◽  
Zahra Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Theory Result ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Approach ◽  
Theory Framework

Abstract Neutrino oscillations are precision probes of new physics. Apart from neutrino masses and mixings, they are also sensitive to possible deviations of low-energy interactions between quarks and leptons from the Standard Model predictions. In this paper we develop a systematic description of such non-standard interactions (NSI) in oscillation experiments within the quantum field theory framework. We calculate the event rate and oscillation probability in the presence of general NSI, starting from the effective field theory (EFT) in which new physics modifies the flavor or Lorentz structure of charged-current interactions between leptons and quarks. We also provide the matching between the EFT Wilson coefficients and the widely used simplified quantum-mechanical approach, where new physics is encoded in a set of production and detection NSI parameters. Finally, we discuss the consistency conditions for the standard NSI approach to correctly reproduce the quantum field theory result.

scholarly journals Sterile neutrinos with non-standard interactions in β- and 0νββ-decay experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Dekens ◽  
J. de Vries ◽  
T. Tong
Keyword(s):  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Sterile Neutrino ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
O 10 ◽  
Theory Framework

Abstract Charged currents are probed in low-energy precision β-decay experiments and at high-energy colliders, both of which aim to measure or constrain signals of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. In light of future β-decay and LHC measurements that will further explore these non-standard interactions, we investigate what neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) experiments can tell us if a nonzero signal were to be found. Using a recently developed effective-field-theory framework, we consider the effects that interactions with right-handed neutrinos have on 0νββ and discuss the range of neutrino masses that current and future 0νββ measurements can probe, assuming neutrinos are Majorana particles. For non-standard interactions at the level suggested by recently observed hints in β decays, we show that next-generation 0νββ experiments can determine the Dirac or Majorana nature of neutrinos, for sterile neutrino masses larger than $$ \mathcal{O}(10) $$ O 10 eV.

scholarly journals Semileptonic τ decays: powerful probes of non-standard charged current weak interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 08002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Roig
Keyword(s):  
Weak Interactions ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Tau Decays ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Precision Observables ◽  
Hadronic Tau

When looking for heavy (O(few TeV)) New Physics, the most efficient way to bene?t from both high and low-energy measurements simultaneously is the use of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In this talk I highlight the importance of semileptonic τ decays in complementing, in this respect, the traditional low-energy precision observables and high-energy measurements. This is yet another reason for considering hadronic tau decays as golden channels at Belle-II beyond the unquestionable interest of the CP violation anomaly in τ → KS πντ decays, that I also discuss within the effective theory. A couple of new results for τ−→ K− ντ decays are also included.

scholarly journals Searching for elusive dark sectors with terrestrial and celestial observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Contino ◽  
Kevin Max ◽  
Rashmish K. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Broad Class ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Visible Sector

Abstract We consider the possible existence of a SM-neutral and light dark sector coupled to the visible sector through irrelevant portal interactions. Scenarios of this kind are motivated by dark matter and arise in various extensions of the Standard Model. We characterize the dark dynamics in terms of one ultraviolet scale Λuv, at which the exchange of heavy mediator fields generates the portal operators, and by one infrared scale ΛIR, setting the mass gap. At energies ΛIR « E « Λuv the dark sector behaves like a conformal field theory and its phenomenology can be studied model independently. We derive the constraints set on this scenario by high- and low-energy laboratory experiments and by astrophysical observations. Our results are conservative and serve as a minimum requirement that must be fulfilled by the broad class of models satisfying our assumptions, of which we give several examples. The experimental constraints are derived in a manner consistent with the validity of the effective field theory used to define the portal interactions. We find that high-energy colliders give the strongest bounds and exclude UV scales up to a few TeV, but only in specific ranges of the IR scale. The picture emerging from current searches can be taken as a starting point to design a future experimental strategy with broader sensitivity.

scholarly journals Non-standard interactions in SMEFT confronted with terrestrial neutrino experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Du ◽  
Hao-Lin Li ◽  
Jian Tang ◽  
Sampsa Vihonen ◽  
Jiang-Hao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Scalar Leptoquark ◽  
Double Chooz ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Reactor Neutrino ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Neutrino Experiments ◽  
Individual Dimension

Abstract The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic and model-independent framework to study neutrino non-standard interactions (NSIs). We study the constraining power of the on-going neutrino oscillation experiments T2K, NOνA, Daya Bay, Double Chooz and RENO in the SMEFT framework. A full consideration of matching is provided between different effective field theories and the renormalization group running at different scales, filling the gap between the low-energy neutrino oscillation experiments and SMEFT at the UV scale. We first illustrate our method with a top- down approach in a simplified scalar leptoquark model, showing more stringent constraints from the neutrino oscillation experiments compared to collider studies. We then provide a bottom-up study on individual dimension-6 SMEFT operators and find NSIs in neutrino experiments already sensitive to new physics at ∼20 TeV when the Wilson coefficients are fixed at unity. We also investigate the correlation among multiple operators at the UV scale and find it could change the constraints on SMEFT operators by several orders of magnitude compared with when only one operator is considered. Furthermore, we find that accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments are sensitive to different SMEFT operators, which highlights the complementarity of the two experiment types.

scholarly journals W-boson production in the high energy electron-photon collisions

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Shershan ◽  
Tatiana V. Shishkina
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
W Boson ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Coupling Constants ◽  
Boson Production ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Electron Photon ◽  
W Boson Production

In this paper the analysis of W-boson production process in high-energy electron-photon collisions as a tool to search for deviations from the Standard Model is considered. In particular, a set of extended gauge models, including anomalous multi-boson interactions, are discussed as a promising way for «new physics» study. A numerical analysis of the total cross sections of the processes was carried out. The lowest order radiative corrections in the soft-photon approximation within the Standard Model are taken into account. Calculations beyond the Standard Model was performed, the kinematic features of the cross sections were identified. The restrictions on the anomalous triple gauge boson coupling constants were analyzed and the kinematic areas to the search for their manifestations were obtained during the experiments at the International Linear Collider. The paper shows that the search for «new physics» effects based on electron-photon collisions around the W-boson production peak is the maximal promising. It was also shown that future experiments at high luminosity linear colliders will significantly clarify the constraints on anomalous gauge coupling constants.

scholarly journals Effective theories with dark matter applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhaditya Bhattacharya ◽  
José Wudka
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Effective Theories ◽  
Detailed Nature

Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has achieved enormous success in describing the interactions among the known fundamental constituents of nature, yet it fails to describe phenomena for which there is very strong experimental evidence, such as the existence of dark matter, and which point to the existence of new physics not included in that model; beyond its existence, experimental data, however, have not provided clear indications as to the nature of that new physics. The effective field theory (EFT) approach, the subject of this review, is designed for this type of situations; it provides a consistent and unbiased framework within which to study new physics effects whose existence is expected but whose detailed nature is known very imperfectly. We will provide a description of this approach together with a discussion of some of its basic theoretical aspects. We then consider applications to high-energy phenomenology and conclude with a discussion of the application of EFT techniques to the study of dark matter physics and its possible interactions with the SM. In several of the applications we also briefly discuss specific models that are ultraviolet complete and may realize the effects described by the EFT.

scholarly journals Charged lepton flavour violating processes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Signer
Keyword(s):  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Charged Lepton ◽  
Experimental Situation ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Charged Scalar ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Doubly Charged ◽  
Theory Framework ◽  
Lepton Flavour

Charged lepton flavour violating processes are naturally present in many extensions of the Standard Model. After a brief overview on the experimental situation, an effective-field-theory framework is described that allows to interpret and compare the various experiments in a consistent way. The usefulness of this approach is then illustrated in the context of a specific model with a doubly charged scalar.

High(est) energy lepton colliders

2021 ◽  
pp. 2142016
Author(s):  
Roberto Franceschini
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Mass Energy ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Lepton Colliders ◽  
The Standard Model

We discuss the physics opportunities and challenges presented by high energy lepton colliders in the range of center-of-mass energy between few and several tens of TeV. The focus is on the progress attainable on the study of weak and Higgs interactions in connection with new physics scenarios motivated by the shortcomings of the Standard Model.

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