Electroweak legacy of the LHC run II
Eduardo da Silva Almeida, Alexandre Alves, O. J. P. Éboli, M. C. González-García
Abstract
We present a comprehensive study of the electroweak interactions using the available Higgs and electroweak diboson production results from LHC runs 1 and 2 as well as the electroweak precision data in terms of the dimension-six operators. Under the assumption that no new tree-level sources of flavor violation or violation of the universality of the weak current are introduced, the analysis involves 21 operators. We assess the impact of the data on kinematic distributions for the Higgs production at the LHC by comparing the results obtained by including the simplified template cross-section data with those in which only total Higgs signal strengths are considered. We also compare the results obtained when including the dimension-six anomalous contributions to order $1/{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}}^{2}$ and to order $1/{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}}^{4}$. As an illustration of the LHC potential to indirectly learn about specific forms of new physics, we adapt the analysis to constrain the parameter space for a few simple extensions of the standard model which generate a subset of the dimension-six operators at tree level.