regime, since the corresponding cross section scales as
σðq
¯
q → l
þ
l
−
Þ ∝ y
4
ql
, thus providing a complimentary
sensitivity to the LQ dynamics as the LHC [7,37,38,49–
52]; in particular yielding better access to larger LQ masses
where the QCD on shell LQ pair production channel is
suppressed.
IV. EFT BEYOND THE ϕSM FRAMEWORK
In this section we focus on the EFT extension of the
renormalizable Lagrangian in Eqs. (1)–(3), for the down-
type LQ ϕð3; 1; −
1
3
Þ. The effects of the NP which underlies
the ϕSM framework in Eqs. (1)–(3) can be parametrized by
a series of effective operators O
i
, which are constructed
using the ϕSM fields and whose coefficients are suppressed
by inverse powers of the NP scale Λ,
L ¼ L
ϕSM
þ
X
∞
n¼5
1
Λ
n−4
X
i
f
i
O
ðnÞ
i
; ð4Þ
where n is the mass dimension of O
ðnÞ
i
and we assume
decoupling and weakly coupled heavy NP, so that n equals
the canonical dimension. The dominating NP effects are
then expected to be generated by contributing operators
with the lowest dimension (n value) that can be generated at
tree-level in the underlying theory.
Before listing the specific form of the higher dimension
operators, O
ðnÞ
i
, it is useful to denote their generic structure
in the form,
O
ðnÞ
i
∈ ϕ
a
H
b
ψ
c
D
d
; ð5Þ
where a, b, c, d are integers representing the multiplicity of
the corresponding factors: O
ðnÞ
i
contains a LQ fields ϕ or
ϕ
, b Higgs fields H or
˜
H, c fermionic fields ψ and d
covariant derivatives D. Group contractions and which
fields are acted on by the derivatives are not specified.
We find that there are only two possible dimension-five
operators involving the LQ Φð3; 1; −
1
3
Þ and the SM fields
—both violating lepton number by two units. To see that,
note that the dimension-five operators with c ¼ 0 in Eq. (5)
are all absent because of gauge invariance. Furthermore,
operators of the form ϕ
2
ψ
2
must contain the fermion
bilinear
¯
ψ
L
ψ
R
, so that only a single gauge invariant
dimension five operator of this form survives [with two
possible SU(3) color contractions which are not specified],
O
ð5Þ
d
2
ϕ
2
¼
¯
dd
c
ϕ
2
; ð6Þ
which violates lepton number by two units.
The diagrams that can generate the dimension five
operator
¯
dd
c
ϕ
2
at tree-level in the underlying heavy theory
are depicted in Fig. 1; the corresponding heavy NP must
contain a heavy scalar Φð6; 1; −
2
3
Þ and/or the heavy
fermions Ψð1; 1; 0Þ, Ψð8; 1; 0Þ.
Dimension five operators of the class ϕψ
2
D can be
shown to be equivalent to operators without a derivative
using integration by parts and, therefore, can be ignored.
Thus, the remaining class of dimension five operators is of
the form ϕψ
2
H and, therefore, must also contain the
fermion bilinear
¯
ψ
L
ψ
R
. The only gauge invariant operator
of this form, which also violates lepton number by two
units is
O
ð5Þ
ldϕH
¼
¯
ld
˜
Hϕ
: ð7Þ
The heavy physics generating this operator at tree-level
must contain a heavy scalar Φð3; 2;
1
6
Þ and/or the heavy
fermions Ψð1; 1; 0Þ, ψð1; 3; 0Þ or Ψð3; 2; −
5
6
Þ; see Fig. 2.
We recall that there is also a unique dimension five
operator that can be constructed using the SM fields only;
the so-called Weinberg operator [53],
O
ð5Þ
W
¼
¯
l
c
˜
H
⋆
˜
H
†
l; ð8Þ
that can be generated in the underlying theory at tree-level
by an exchange of a heavy scalar Φð1; 3; 0Þ and/or the
heavy fermions Ψð1; 1; 0Þ, Ψð1; 3; 0Þ.
Therefore, the overall dimension five effective operator
extension of L
ϕSM
is
ΔL
ð5Þ
ϕSM
¼
f
W
Λ
W
¯
l
c
˜
H
⋆
˜
H
†
l þ
f
ldϕH
Λ
ldϕH
¯
ld
˜
Hϕ
þ
f
d
2
ϕ
2
Λ
d
2
ϕ
2
¯
dd
c
ϕ
2
þ H:c:; ð9Þ
FIG. 1. Tree-level graphs in the underlying heavy theory that
generate the dimension five effective operator
¯
dd
c
ϕ
2
. Φ and Ψ
stand for a heavy scalar and heavy fermion, respectively, with
quantum numbers Φð6; 1; −
2
3
Þ and Ψð1 ; 1 ; 0Þ or Ψð8; 1; 0 Þ
(see text).
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