1306.3380 (Harrison Mebane et al.)

Constraints on Electroweak Effective Operators at One Loop    [PDF]

Harrison Mebane, Nicolas Greiner, Cen Zhang, Scott Willenbrock

We derive bounds on nine dimension-six operators involving electroweak gauge bosons and the Higgs boson from precision electroweak data. Four of these operators contribute at tree level, and five contribute only at one loop. Using the full power of effective field theory, we show that the bounds on the five loop-level operators are much weaker than previously claimed, and thus much weaker than bounds from tree-level processes.

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