Effective field theory and scalar extensions of the top quark sector

被引:12
作者
Englert, Christoph [1 ]
Galler, Peter [1 ]
White, Chris D. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Glasgow, Sch Phys & Astron, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[2] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Phys & Astron, Ctr Res String Theory, 327 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
HIGGS; FEYNARTS; DECAY;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.035035
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), such that it is important to study their validity and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the Standard Model (SM) in which a top quark couples to a new heavy scalar. We find the dimension six operators generated by this theory at low energy and match the EFT to the full theory up to the next-to-leading order (NLO) precision in the simplified model coupling. We then examine the range of validity of the EFT description in top pair production, finding excellent validity even if the scalar mass is only slightly above LHC energies, provided NLO corrections are included. In the absence of the latter, the LO EFT overestimates kinematic distributions, such that overoptimistic constraints on beyond the Standard Model (BSM) contributions are obtained. We next examine the constraints on the EFT and full models that are expected to be obtained from both top pair and four top production at the LHC, finding for low scalar masses that both processes show similar exclusion power. However, for larger masses, estimated LHC uncertainties push constraints into the nonperturbative regime, where the full model is difficult to analyze, and thus is not perturbatively matchable to the EFT. This highlights the necessity to improve uncertainties of SM hypotheses in top final states.
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