Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2024)

A global analysis of the SMEFT under the minimal MFV assumption

  • Riccardo Bartocci,
  • Anke Biekötter,
  • Tobias Hurth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2024)074
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 5
pp. 1 – 42

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Abstract We present comprehensive global fits of the SMEFT under the minimal minimal flavour violation (MFV) hypothesis, i.e. assuming that only the flavour-symmetric and CP-invariant operators are relevant at the high scale. The considered operator set is determined by this flavour assumption rather than the used datasets. We establish global limits on these Wilson coefficients using leading order and next-to-leading order SMEFT predictions for electroweak precision observables, Higgs, top, flavour and dijet data as well as measurements from parity violation experiments and lepton scattering. Our investigations reveal an intriguing crosstalk among different observables, underscoring the importance of combining diverse observables from various energy scales in global SMEFT analyses.

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