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Constraining the SMEFT with Bayesian reweighting

by Samuel van Beek, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo, Emma Slade

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Emanuele Roberto Nocera
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Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05296v2  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2019-11-25
Date submitted: 2019-10-02 02:00
Submitted by: Nocera, Emanuele Roberto
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approaches: Experimental, Theoretical, Computational

Abstract

We illustrate how Bayesian reweighting can be used to incorporate the constraints provided by new measurements into a global Monte Carlo analysis of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). This method, extensively applied to study the impact of new data on the parton distribution functions of the proton, is here validated by means of our recent SMEFiT analysis of the top quark sector. We show how, under well-defined conditions and for the SMEFT operators directly sensitive to the new data, the reweighting procedure is equivalent to a corresponding new fit. We quantify the amount of information added to the SMEFT parameter space by means of the Shannon entropy and of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. We investigate the dependence of our results upon the choice of alternative expressions of the weights.

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Published as SciPost Phys. 7, 070 (2019)


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Anonymous Report 2 on 2019-11-19 (Invited Report)

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All issues were clearly clarified by the authors. I strongly recommend the manuscript for the publication in the SciPost.

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I am very satisfied by the edits made in response to previous refereeing, and recommend this article for publication.

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