Monolepton production in SMEFT to $\mathcal O(1/\Lambda^4)$ and beyond

TL;DR

This paper computes monolepton production processes in SMEFT up to order 1/Λ^4, analyzing the impact of higher-dimensional operators and providing a framework to estimate effects from even higher dimensions.

Contribution

It introduces calculations of monolepton and dilepton production at order 1/Λ^4 in SMEFT, including contributions from dimension six and eight operators, and develops a general form for higher-dimensional contact terms.

Findings

Dominance of four-fermion contributions at high energies.

Quantitative comparison of 1/Λ^2 and 1/Λ^4 effects.

Framework for estimating higher-dimensional operator effects.

Abstract

We calculate $pp \to \ell^{+}\nu, \ell^-\bar \nu$ to ${\cal{O}}(1/\Lambda^4)$ within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. In particular, we calculate the four-fermion contribution from dimension six and eight operators, which dominates at large center of mass energy. We explore the relative size of the $\mathcal O(1/\Lambda^4)$ and $\mathcal O(1/\Lambda^2)$ results for various kinematic regimes and assumptions about the Wilson coefficients. Results for Drell-Yan production $pp \to \ell^+\ell^-$ at ${\cal{O}}(1/\Lambda^4)$ are also provided. Additionally, we develop the form for four fermion contact term contributions to $pp \to \ell^{+}\nu, \ell^-\bar \nu, pp \to \ell^+\ell^-$ of arbitrary mass dimension. This allows us to estimate the effects from even higher dimensional (dimension $> 8$) terms in the SMEFT framework.