EFT mini-workshop at IPPP

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Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB)), Michael Spannowsky

Session 1: brief review of combined EFT fits and constraints

 

9 TopFitter (White)

- Warsaw basis: 16 operators affecting top; data constrain 12 operators, neglect others

- correlations included where available

- should we set all but one to zero to understand individual measurements?

  -> has to be presented carefully, not an actual EFT parameter fit

- which operators are primarily constrained by quadratic terms?  cG, maybe 4-fermion?

  -> paper says linear operators included?

- scale of validity quoted?  No but removing Mtt overflow bin did not make much difference

- could you determine the goodness of fit for the SM only?

- What about alternate approach from Butterworth: assume data is SM and constrain c's assuming

  they are zero?  Is that a circular approach?

- any issue with fitting particle-level vs parton-level?  No.

 -> should experimentalists be the ones evaluating particle->parton uncertainties?

- should we make measurements of distributions before background subtraction?  Yes.

 

9:30 Higgs + dibosons + jets (Plehn)

- Include Dphi(jj) but do not fit CP-odd operators for philosophical reasons

- no experimental combination of dibosons (only ATLAS+CMS ZZ)

- quark 4-fermion operators constrained by 2-3 jets, interference term is zero

- three-gluon operator constrained by >=5 jets

- constraints are at a high scale, can we apply them to Higgs physics?  Consensus is yes.

- What about (DG)^2?  Not in Warsaw, becomes a 4-fermion operator (constrained by 2-3 jets).

- m4l gives little information within the context of VBF -- adding ggF should increase its contribution

 

10 EW precision & low energy (Trott)

- EDM strongly constrains CP-odd operators in Higgs & top physics

  -> motivates fits either requiring MFV or CP-even

- Benefit to using mW,mZ,GF input scheme because there are two scales (alphaEM would be third)

- EFT uncertainties can be important for precision EW data (higher order terms ~10% of leading terms)

 

 

Session 2: status of constraints within LHC experiments

 

11 Higgs STXS vs data (Hays/Zemaityte)

- note that including quadratic terms becomes more valid when measurements are precise

- should only truncate based on IR physics or MFV symmetry assumption

  -> will truncate using only assumed symmetries

- should remove coefficients from operators and include top loop in ggF

- should include ~1% uncertainty on S parameter from higher order effects

 

11:30 Higgs DiffXS (Pilkington)

- which is more sensitive: two 1d distributions with correlation or 2d distribution?  Could check.

  -> significant gain expected from 2d distribution in VBF

 

12 Electroweak (Lohwasser/Price)

- Publish observed numbers of data events?  Useful if validated Delphes model provided.

- Should quote limits from fully optimized reconstructed data and compare to those from unfolded data

 

12:30 CMS (Milenovic)

- will CMS provide correlations in diffXS?  Aiming to do so, probably starting from 2017 data

- will CMS present results using YR4 PO notation?  Yes, along with historical presentation.

 

 

Session 3: future tools/studies in dim-6 (LO & NLO) and dim-8 EFT

 

14 Warsaw LO UFO (Brivio)

- two implementations of Warsaw basis will soon be available

- ~30 operators if considering W/Z/H pole observables

- first fit probably also needs qq->ttbar?

 

14:30 Warsaw NLO QCD (Maltoni)

- many NLO SMEFT calculations available

- need to implement four-fermion terms before releasing NLO Madgraph implementation

  -> Provide ggF as a starting point to study?

 

15 Dim 8 (Sanz)

- no new q^2 dependence coming from dim-8 -- could be due to basis?

- Need to check vertices with fermions: q^2 dependence might come from spinors

- useful for systematic checks

- can VBF be added?  more complicated but possible in principle

 

 

Session 4: fit issues

 

16 Uncertainties (Pecjak)

- Can Madgraph include the running of the EFT operators so that we can use it for EFT scale variations?

 

16:30: Validity (Hays/Spannowsky)

- For a given validity scale what range of c should we allow?  Up to ~10 okay.

- What should we do about coefficients that are directly probed above the scale used in the fit?  Set to zero?

 

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  • Wednesday, 6 September
    • 17:30 18:50
      Reception @ Holgate house (Grey College) 1h 20m
    • 19:00 20:30
      Dinner @ Collingwood 1h 30m
  • Thursday, 7 September
    • 09:00 09:20
      Topfitter 20m
      Speaker: Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)
    • 09:30 09:50
      Higgs/dibosons/jet EFT fits 20m
      Speaker: Tilman Plehn
    • 10:00 10:20
      Precision/low-energy EFT constraints 20m
      Speaker: Michael Robert Trott (University of Copenhagen (DK))
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee / tea 20m
    • 11:00 11:20
      Higgs STXS for EFT fits 20m
      Speakers: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB)), Gabija Zemaityte (University of Oxford (GB))
    • 11:30 11:50
      Higgs diff XS for EFT fits 20m
      Speaker: Andrew Pilkington (University Of Manchester)
    • 12:00 12:20
      Electroweak/diboson constraints on EFT 20m
      Speakers: Darren Price (University of Manchester (GB)), Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))
    • 12:30 12:50
      EFT at CMS 20m
      Speaker: Predrag Milenovic (CERN)
    • 13:00 13:50
      Lunch 50m
    • 14:00 14:20
      Dimension-8 Higgs/EW EFT operators 20m
      Speaker: Veronica Sanz Gonzalez (University of Sussex (GB))
    • 14:30 14:50
      UFO with Warsaw @ LO 20m
      Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University of Copenhagen)
    • 15:00 15:20
      UFO with Warsaw @ NLO in QCD 20m
      Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
    • 15:30 15:50
      Coffee / tea 20m
    • 16:00 16:20
      Uncertainties in EFT parameter fits 20m
      Speaker: Ben Pecjak (IPPP Durham)
    • 16:30 16:50
      EFT validity issues 20m
      Speakers: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB)), Kathrin Becker (University of Oxford (GB)), Michael Spannowsky
    • 17:00 18:50
      Next steps & discussion 1h 50m
    • 19:00 21:00
      Workshop dinner 2h