Non resonant new physics in HL LHC and EIC era

Описание: The next decades of high-energy physics will be shaped by two complementary facilities: the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL–LHC) at CERN and the Electron–Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven. While neither machine may directly produce new heavy particles, both will achieve unprecedented precision across a wide range of observables. In such a regime, signals of physics beyond the Standard Model may manifest not as resonant peaks, but as subtle, correlated deviations across differential distributions. Interpreting these patterns in a systematic and model-independent manner requires the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), together with a consistent treatment of renormalization-group evolution between the LHC and EIC energy scales.

In this talk, I will outline the theoretical framework for extracting non-resonant new physics from collider data, review the status of automated toolchains for SMEFT matching, running, and global fits, and highlight recent progress in incorporating next-to-leading order (NLO) and dimension-8 effects required for precision analyses at the HL–LHC. I will then discuss the new opportunities provided by the EIC in accessing spin and flavor structures that remain unconstrained at the LHC, demonstrating how the two programs are naturally complementary. Finally, I will describe ongoing efforts in physics-aware AI/ML representation learning that aim to uncover correlated new-physics signatures directly from high-dimensional data, offering a path toward robust, discovery-oriented inference in the HL–LHC and EIC era.