Effective field theory interpretation of ATLAS measurements involving the Higgs boson, electroweak bosons and the top quark

Abstract

Wilson coefficients in dimension-six effective field theory are constrained in a combined fit to several ATLAS measurements. These inputs probe Higgs-boson processes across multiple production and decay modes, di-Higgs signatures in the $b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ and $b\bar{b}\tau \tau$ final states, $WW$ and $WZ$ diboson signatures, electroweak $Zjj$ final states, high-mass Drell-Yan interactions, and $t\bar{t}$ events in both resolved and boosted topologies. Precision electroweak observables from LEP, SLD, and ATLAS are also included. A total of 48 parameters, including individual Wilson coefficients in the Warsaw basis and linear combinations of Wilson coefficients, are constrained simultaneously. Constraints on two-Higgs-doublet models and heavy-vector-boson models are also obtained by matching a relevant sub-set of the results with their parameters. This combined fit provides the most comprehensive effective field theory interpretation of experimental data by the ATLAS Collaboration to date. No significant deviations from the Standard Model are observed.

Comments: 65 pages in total, author list starting page 48, 12 figures, 12 tables, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2023-32