11–13 May 2026
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Probing Dimension-6 SMEFT Operators in Rare Z and Higgs Decays at the LHC and Beyond

12 May 2026, 14:45
15m
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Inci Karaaslan (University of Chicago (US))

Description

Motivated by the upcoming High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the ongoing efforts towards a Muon Collider, we investigate the potential of future colliders to probe beyond the Standard Model physics through rare decay observables, all within the model-independent dimension-6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. We focus on operators involving electroweak gauge fields or fermionic currents coupled to the electroweak sector to understand their role in rare Z and Higgs decay topologies. We discuss how invariant mass distributions in multi-lepton outgoing particles from these decay topologies can provide a way to enhance the sensitivity of future colliders to these rare decay processes and thus improve constraints relative to existing bounds.

Authors

Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago) Inci Karaaslan (University of Chicago (US)) Liantao Wang

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