The effect of the two-loop SMEFT RGEs at future colliders

TL;DR

This paper computes and analyzes the impact of two-loop SMEFT RGEs on Wilson coefficients, revealing significant effects for certain operators and implications for future collider phenomenology.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive numerical solution of two-loop SMEFT RGEs and assesses their phenomenological impact at future colliders.

Findings

Two-loop effects significantly alter mixing patterns for some operators.

Inclusion of two-loop RGEs affects global fits and sensitivity to new physics.

Percent-level effects are observed in model coupling sensitivities.

Abstract

The search for New Physics requires ever increasing precision from experimental and theoretical efforts. Within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, the latest achievement in this quest has been the complete computation of the two-loop Renormalisation Group Equations (RGEs) for the Wilson Coefficients of dimension-six operators. In this work, we solve the two-loop SMEFT RGEs with full numerical integration and compare the evolution matrix obtained at one and two loops to analyze how two-loop contributions alter mixing patterns and break zeroes present at one-loop order. Then, we perform a first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the two-loop RGEs in phenomenological studies at HL-LHC and FCC-ee. From a bottom-up perspective, we carry out individual and global fits at linear and quadratic level for a set of 61 Wilson coefficients and compare against the results obtained by including only one-loop RGE effects. We find non-negligible two-loop induced effects in some cases, in particular for four-quark, top Yukawa and Higgs-gluon operators. From a top-down perspective, we perform fits to all the scalar and fermion extensions of the Granada dictionary matched onto SMEFT at one-loop level, including for the first time the couplings that enter only at one loop, and find percent-level effects in the sensitivity to the couplings of some models.