$tWZ$ production at NLO in QCD in the SMEFT

Abstract

At NLO in QCD, the $tWZ$ production process interferes with resonant LO processes, $t\bar{t}Z$ and $t\bar{t}$, and a method to meaningfully disentangle these overlapping processes needs to be employed. I discuss the diagram-removal procedure needed to obtain an operative definition of $tWZ$ at NLO accuracy. I also show the predictions we obtain in the context of the Standard Model and in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory including the relevant dimension-six SMEFT operators.

Comments: 7 pages with figures and tables. Proceeding: 14th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (videoconference), 13-17 September 2021