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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)024
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Beyond Standard Model; Effective field theories
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- Villum Fonden [00010102] Funding Source: researchfish
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We discuss the impact of many previously neglected effects of higher dimensional operators when fitting to Electroweak Precision data (EWPD) in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We calculate the general case of 2 -> 2 fermion scattering in the SMEFT to order O((v) over bar (2)(T)/Lambda(2)) valid on and off the Z pole, in the massless fermion limit. We demonstrate that previously neglected corrections scale as Gamma M-Z(Z)/(v) over bar (2)(T) in the partial widths extracted from measured cross sections at LEPI, compared to the leading effect of dimension six operators in anomalous Z couplings. Further, constraints on leading effects of anomalous Z couplings are also modified by neglected perturbative corrections and dimension eight operators. We perform a minimal EWPD fit to illustrate the size of the error these corrections induce, when bounding leading effects. These considerations relax bounds compared to a naive leading order analysis, and show that constraints that rise above the percent level are subject to substantial theoretical uncertanties. We also argue that renormalization group running global constraints expressed through chi(2) functions to a common scale, and then minimizing and performing a global fit of all data allows more consistent constraints to be obtained in the SMEFT.
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