https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4280-9
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
EFTfitter: a tool for interpreting measurements in the context of effective field theories
1
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
2
Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
3
Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Physik IV, TU Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Straße 4a, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
* e-mail: kevin.kroeninger@tu-dortmund.de
Received:
27
May
2016
Accepted:
22
July
2016
Published online:
2
August
2016
Over the past years, the interpretation of measurements in the context of effective field theories has attracted much attention in the field of particle physics. We present a tool for interpreting sets of measurements in such models using a Bayesian ansatz by calculating the posterior probabilities of the corresponding free parameters numerically. An example is given, in which top-quark measurements are used to constrain anomalous couplings at the Wtb-vertex.
© The Author(s), 2016
