The naive-$T$-odd angular coefficients $A_5$--$A_7$ in Drell--Yan production are highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM), making them sensitive probes of CP-violating interactions beyond the SM. We study these observables within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), focusing on dimension-six electroweak and chromomagnetic quark dipole operators. Due to their chirality-flipping structure, the leading contributions from CP-violating dipole interactions arise at $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ through the interference between electroweak and chromomagnetic dipole amplitudes. We find that the sensitivity is primarily driven by $A_6$ and $A_7$ in the high dilepton transverse momentum region, where the dipole contributions are enhanced, while $A_5$ remains largely insensitive. Combining the ATLAS and CMS measurements, we constrain the CP-violating dipole combinations of Wilson coefficients at the $\mathcal{O}(0.1)$ level for $\Lambda=1~{\rm TeV}$. Assuming statistically dominated uncertainties at the HL-LHC, the sensitivity can be improved to the $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})$ level. Our results highlight $A_6$ and $A_7$ as complementary probes of CP-violating dipole interactions at hadron colliders.
We investigate how possible new CP-violating top-quark interactions are encoded in the quantum state of a produced $t\bar t$ pair. We derive analytic expressions for the production density matrix in several benchmark channels relevant to hadron, lepton and photon colliders. In a common spin basis, we identify two chara...
P. Lamba, F. Maltoni, Olimpia Miniati et al.· 1 citation
We investigate the impact of QCD penguin operators on direct CP violation in singly Cabibbo-suppressed $D^0$ decays within the framework of light-cone sum rules (LCSR) using pion and kaon light-cone distribution amplitudes. We determine, for the first time, the hadronic matrix elements of the QCD penguin operators for...
We present the details of a dispersive method to construct the amplitudes for hadronic multibody $B$ decays based on the universality of pairwise hadronic final-state interactions at low invariant masses. This approach allows us to split the amplitude into source terms controlled by phenomenological parameters and fina...
L. Heuser, A. Reyes-Torrecilla, C. Hanhart et al.· 3 citations
The strange quark and antiquark contents of the proton remain weakly constrained compared to the other light quarks, particularly the asymmetry between the two. Production of a $W^\mp$ boson in association with a charmed meson $D^{(*)\pm}$ could provide additional constraints in future fits of parton distribution funct...
Ville Alanko, I. Helenius, H. Paukkunen· 0 citations
The simultaneous production of a $W^\pm$ boson and a charmed hadron in proton-proton collisions offers a potential probe for constraining the strange quark parton distribution functions (PDFs). We study these processes at next-to-leading order in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics within the general-mass variable-flav...
Ville Alanko, I. Helenius, H. Paukkunen· 1 citation
We compute the deuterium-production reaction $n+p \to d+\gamma$ in an effective field theory whose degrees of freedom are the nuclear states themselves: the amplitude is assembled from on-shell three-point vertices, glued across its factorization channels, and completed by the contact terms consistent with the symmetri...
T. Tait· 1 citation
We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads.
See our Cookie Policy.
