paper

Top quark differential distributions in the SMEFT

arXiv:2610.30328

Abstract

We discuss top quark processes, in particular production and top-antitop pair production, as probes of dimension-6 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We calculate top-quark double differential distributions in transverse momentum and rapidity, and we perform SMEFT fits at LO, NLO and, by adding second-order soft-gluon corrections, at approximate NNLO.

arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures; presented at ICHEP 2026, 30 July - 5 August 2026, Natal, Brazil