Low-Energy Effective Field Theory below the Electroweak Scale: Operators and Matching

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Main Authors: Jenkins, Elizabeth E., Manohar, Aneesh V., Stoffer, Peter
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author Jenkins, Elizabeth E.
Manohar, Aneesh V.
Stoffer, Peter
author_facet Jenkins, Elizabeth E.
Manohar, Aneesh V.
Stoffer, Peter
contents The gauge-invariant operators up to dimension six in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale are classified. There are 70 Hermitian dimension-five and 3631 Hermitian dimension-six operators that conserve baryon and lepton number, as well as $ΔB= \pm ΔL = \pm 1$, $ΔL=\pm 2$, and $ΔL=\pm 4$ operators. The matching onto these operators from the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) up to order $1/Λ^2$ is computed at tree level. SMEFT imposes constraints on the coefficients of the low-energy effective theory, which can be checked experimentally to determine whether the electroweak gauge symmetry is broken by a single fundamental scalar doublet as in SMEFT. Our results, when combined with the one-loop anomalous dimensions of the low-energy theory and the one-loop anomalous dimensions of SMEFT, allow one to compute the low-energy implications of new physics to leading-log accuracy, and combine them consistently with high-energy LHC constraints.
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spellingShingle Low-Energy Effective Field Theory below the Electroweak Scale: Operators and Matching
Jenkins, Elizabeth E.
Manohar, Aneesh V.
Stoffer, Peter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The gauge-invariant operators up to dimension six in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale are classified. There are 70 Hermitian dimension-five and 3631 Hermitian dimension-six operators that conserve baryon and lepton number, as well as $ΔB= \pm ΔL = \pm 1$, $ΔL=\pm 2$, and $ΔL=\pm 4$ operators. The matching onto these operators from the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) up to order $1/Λ^2$ is computed at tree level. SMEFT imposes constraints on the coefficients of the low-energy effective theory, which can be checked experimentally to determine whether the electroweak gauge symmetry is broken by a single fundamental scalar doublet as in SMEFT. Our results, when combined with the one-loop anomalous dimensions of the low-energy theory and the one-loop anomalous dimensions of SMEFT, allow one to compute the low-energy implications of new physics to leading-log accuracy, and combine them consistently with high-energy LHC constraints.
title Low-Energy Effective Field Theory below the Electroweak Scale: Operators and Matching
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04486