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Loop counting matters in SMEFT

Gerhard Buchalla, Gudrun Heinrich, Christoph Müller-Salditt, Florian Pandler

SciPost Phys. 15, 088 (2023) · published 11 September 2023

Abstract

We show that, in addition to the counting of canonical dimensions, a counting of loop orders is necessary to fully specify the power counting of Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Using concrete examples, we demonstrate that considering the canonical dimensions of operators alone may lead to inconsistent results. The counting of both, canonical dimensions and loop orders, establishes a clear hierarchy of the terms in SMEFT. In practice, this serves to identify, and focus on, the potentially dominating effects in any given high-energy process in a meaningful way. Additionally, this will lead to a consistent limitation of free parameters in SMEFT applications.


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