Flavour symmetries in the SMEFT

Abstract

Abstract We analyse how U(3)5 and U(2)5 flavour symmetries act on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, providing an organising principle to classify the large number of dimension-six operators involving fermion fields. A detailed counting of such operators, at different order in the breaking terms of both these symmetries, is presented. A brief discussion about possible deviations from these two reference cases, and a simple example of the usefulness of this classification scheme for high-p T analyses at the LHC, are also presented.

Keywords

• Effective Field Theories
• Global Symmetries