Scalar and tensor neutrino interactions

We constrain general Dirac neutrino interactions based on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework extended with right-handed neutrinos N (SMNEFT) using deep inelastic and coherent elastic neutrino scattering, nuclear beta decay, and meson decay data, and high energy electron-proton and proton-proton collider data. We compute the one-loop anomalous dimensions of the low-energy effective field theory (LEFT) below the electroweak scale and of SMNEFT above the electroweak scale. The tree-level matching between LEFT and SMNEFT is performed at the electroweak scale. Currently, the most stringent limits on scalar and tensor interactions arise from pseudoscalar meson decays and the LHC measurements at the per mille level. In the future, the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has the potential to reach the 10−4 level and LHeC can play an important role under certain theoretical assumptions.


Introduction
Flavor oscillations between massive neutrinos is a firmly established phenomenon that cannot be accounted for by the Standard Model (SM) [1][2][3], thus strongly motivating physics beyond the SM (BSM) associated with the neutrino sector [4,5]. The absence of BSM signals at the LHC and other low energy experiments suggests that either the new physics scale is beyond the kinematic reach of our high energy experiments or that it is of a more subtle incarnation. It is therefore prudent to guide our search for new physics as generally as possible without theoretical prejudice.
Generically, departures from the SM at energies below a new physics scale can be described by a model-independent Effective Field Theory (EFT) after integrating out the heavy degrees of freedom in the new physics sector. Such an effective Lagrangian was first constructed by Fermi for the 4-fermion contact interaction involving a neutrino in nuclear β-decay. In the SM language, the contact interaction is a result of integrating JHEP07(2020)207 out a heavy particle, the electroweak W -boson. To account for nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos, Wolfenstein proposed 4-fermion interactions with general couplings [6], that have helped understand matter effects in solar neutrino oscillation experiments. Much theoretical and experimental effort has been made to search for potential new physics along the lines of neutrino NSI; for reviews see refs. [7][8][9]. To explore new physics near or above the electroweak scale, it is appropriate to adopt an EFT, respecting the full SM gauge symmetry with the SM field content, the so-called Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) [10][11][12]. Neutrino NSIs at low energies can be obtained in this framework by integrating out the heavy particles t, W ± , Z and the Higgs boson h.
The addition of right-handed neutrino states to the SM is the simplest extension to account for neutrino oscillations. In this article, we adopt this framework including three right-handed neutrino states N that are lighter than a keV. Naturally, they are "sterile neutrinos" with no SM gauge charges. However, we do not specify their possible Majorana mass terms. We restrict our study to the case in which the left-handed neutrino states are Dirac in nature. Then, new flavor-conserving neutral current vector and tensor interactions are possible. The general Standard Model Effective Field Theory extended with righthanded neutrinos (SMNEFT) has been presented in refs. [13,14]. We follow this well motivated formalism. A framework for model-independent General Neutrino Interactions (GNI) below the electroweak scale has been also constructed in ref. [15]. All operators of scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial vector and tensor interactions of neutrinos with SM fermions are included, leading to potentially rich phenomenology. We note that scalar and tensor GNI operators cannot be embedded in SMEFT at the dimension-six level, but are present in SMNEFT.
There are well-motivated ultraviolet complete models that introduce SM singlet righthanded neutrinos. U(1) B−L extensions of the SM generate vector interactions between right-handed neutrinos and SM particles. In models with left-right symmetry [16][17][18], such interactions are generated after left-right symmetry breaking. Leptoquark models [14,19] generate various neutrino-quark interactions. Each of these leads to model-dependent phenomenology if the new states are kinematically accessible, which we will not explore further. Instead, we focus on generic features of Dirac neutrino interactions after integrating out the heavy degrees of freedom.
In this article, we set out to examine new scalar and tensor neutrino-quark interactions using SMNEFT. We present constraints on the operators from current low-energy data including neutrino mass bounds, meson and nuclear decays, neutrino deep inelastic scattering, and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS), and from current high-energy data from the LHC. We also explore the potential sensitivities for future CEνNS, LHeC, and LHC experiments. Since the physical processes we consider span a vast range of energies, the renormalization group running and matching effects for the relevant Wilson coefficients at different energy scales have been properly taken into account in our analyses; this procedure was carried out for vector NSI in ref. [20].
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we provide an overview of the theoretical formalism and emphasize the importance of matching the Wilson coefficients by renormalization group running at different scales. In section 3, we present the current JHEP07(2020)207 constraints and future sensitivities from a wealth of low energy experiments. In section 4, we study the current and projected bounds from high-energy proton-proton colliders and electron-proton colliders. We summarize our results in section 5. Some details of the renormalization group running are given in appendix A.

Theoretical formalism
The 4-fermion neutrino interactions via the SM neutral and charged currents at the leading order (LO), after integrating out the Z and W ± propagators, are f denotes quarks and charged leptons, V is the CKM quark-mixing matrix, g is the SM SU(2) L gauge coupling, M W is the mass of the W boson given by the Higgs vacuum expectation value gv/2, and α, β, γ, and δ are flavor indices. The chiral couplings g L,f and g R,f are defined as where Q f is the fermion's charge in units of +e. We choose a flavor basis such that the downtype quark and the lepton Yukawa matrices are diagonal for convenience of calculation. The transformation for the up-type quarks between the flavor (primed) and mass basis (unprimed) reads In the spirit of EFT, the theory is valid only at low energies, E M W . Note that NSI [7][8][9] are of the same form as eqs. (2.1) and (2.2), but the scale and couplings are free parameters to reflect the unknown nature of new physics.

LEFT
Going beyond the SM, the full list of dimension-six four-fermion SMNEFT operators, which include the left-handed and right-handed neutrino states, are given in ref. [14]. Integrating out W ± , Z, h and t leads to the low-energy effective field theory (LEFT), respecting SU(3) C × U(1) Q . GNI via neutral and charged currents, containing scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial vector and tensor terms at dimension-six level can be parameterized as where the operators O j , O j and parameters (∼) are listed in table 1. The Dirac spinor ν α = (ν Lα , N α ) T , and u and d indicate the mass eigenstates of up-and down-type quarks, JHEP07(2020)207 respectively. 1 Hermiticity of the Lagrangian requires the scalar and tensor effective couplings to satisfy If the BSM new physics scale is Λ with a typical tree-level coupling κ, then paramet- Note that the operators with j = 1, 3 are the familiar NSI terms, and are a subset of SMEFT.

SMNEFT
Of the dim-6 4-fermion SMNEFT operators related to scalar and tensor GNI, the three chirality-flipping operators that couple to quarks are where the fields are written in two-component spinors. L and Q are the left-handed lepton and quark doublet, respectively, and N is the right-handed neutrino state. Here, . We do not consider other dim-6 4-fermion SMNEFT operators since they lead to nonstandard charged lepton interactions and are therefore strongly constrained [14]. We can write the effective Lagrangian as

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where the flavor indices are omitted for simplicity. In the same spirit of power counting as in the last subsection, the Wilson coefficients (WCs) have the general dependence C ∼ κ 2 v 2 /Λ 2 . For instance, C ∼ O(10 −4 ) if Λ ∼ 10 TeV and κ ∼ 1.
To jointly interpret the results of experiments at very different energy scales, a consistent theoretical framework is needed. LEFT and SMNEFT are the language we use to describe the physics below and above the electroweak scale v, respectively. The renormalization group (RG) running below and above the electroweak scale makes it possible to directly compare low-energy and high-energy probes. Leading-order (LO) matching between these two EFTs is performed at the electroweak scale.

RG running and matching
Since we will use both low-energy neutrino scattering experiments and high-energy colliders to constrain these Wilson coefficients (WCs), renormalization group (RG) running and matching have to be implemented. We perform leading-order (LO) matching of these two EFTs at the eletroweak scale: (2.9) As we run down, both neutral and charged current WCs are induced by each of the three SMNEFT operators. Therefore they are not independent of each other. Their relations at the electroweak scale are (2.10) We have performed the RG running above and below the weak scale, the details of which are described in appendix A. The RG equations are run from 2 GeV to 1 TeV, which is the typical LHC scale. Eventually we place bounds on the SMNEFT WCs at 1 TeV. The

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anomalous dimension matrix we calculated at the one-loop level is where the flavor indices are implicit. The QED and weak couplings are important as they introduce mixing between different operators. Solving the differential equations with the three-loop β-functions and taking into account the top and bottom quark mass thresholds, we obtain the numerical relations between effective couplings at different energy scales: . (2.18) The numerical relations between LEFT WCs at 2 GeV and SMNEFT WCs at 1 TeV, with V ud = 0.97420 [21], are Low energy constraints on the SMNEFT WCs from nuclear beta decay, pseudoscalar meson decay, and coherent scattering have been discussed in ref. [14] without accounting for the effects of RG running. The RG running is crucial, as it introduces operator mixing which produces degeneracies in the WCs. Here we first calculate the LEFT and SMNEFT WCs below and above the electroweak scale, respectively. After the RG running, we convert the low energy constraints on the LEFT WCs to the high energy constraints on the SMNEFT WCs, and compare them with those from high energy collider experiments at the same energy scale.

Neutrino mass bounds
Scalar and tensor interactions that flip the neutrino chirality contribute to the neutrino mass radiatively. Both one-and two-loop corrections to the neutrino mass can be generated by chirality-changing operators. Here we ignore the one-loop corrections since, except for the top quark, they are (counterintuitively) suppressed by a factor of (m q /M Z ) 2 as JHEP07(2020)207 compared to the two-loop corrections [22,23]. The two-loop contribution is estimated as where m q is a quark mass, µ is the renormalization scale, and can be either a NC or CC GNI parameter. We conservatively take µ to not be too far above the electroweak scale so that the top quark loop correction is suppressed. Bounds from neutrino masses and oscillations are very model specific because of the importance of the properties of the particles in the loops and the possibility of cancellations between loop and other contributions. However, barring fine-tuned cancellations, they provide an order of magnitude estimate of how much the new interactions may contribute to neutrino masses. For our estimates, we assume neutrinos acquire mass only from loop effects due to the new interactions, i.e., neutrino masses vanish as → 0. Then, constraints on the contact interactions can be obtained by requiring ∆m ν < m ν . A recent upper bound on the sum of neutrino mass from cosmological observations and particle physics experiments is m ν 0.26 eV [24], which is model dependent. The most recent modelindependent bound is that obtained by the KATRIN Collaboration [25]. They reported a 1.1 eV upper bound on the effective neutrino mass based on the β-decay electron spectrum. The bounds on the scalar and tensor contact interactions from neutrino masses without (with) cosmological inputs are The bounds using cosmological data are only suggestive because we have not evaluated how the relic neutrino abundance is affected by the new interactions. From eq. (3.2), we see that if GNI are also coupled to heavy quark flavors, the bounds on the SMNEFT WCs C N LQu , C N LdQ , and C N LdQ are too strong to be probed by other experiments, current or future. Despite the highly model-dependent nature of this conclusion, we focus on couplings to first generation quarks in the rest of the paper. Related bounds arise from neutrino magnetic moments via an external photon attached to the fermion loop responsible for neutrino mass generation. The magnetic moment induced by scalar and tensor GNI is bounded by [26] where the Bohr magneton µ B = e 2mec 2.9 × 10 −7 eV −1 . This yields which are much weaker than the bounds above.

Pseudoscalar meson decay
The pseudoscalar quark bilinear can contribute to the leptonic decay of a pseudoscalar meson (P ). In the SM, the decay is helicity suppressed so that the width Γ SM (P → ν) ∝ JHEP07(2020)207 m 2 . The suppression is lifted by pseudoscalar GNI The branching ratio serves as a good observable, as the experiment systematic uncertainties shared by the two processes cancel in the ratio. ∆ π contains higher order corrections [27]. Γ (π→ ν[γ]) contains physical and virtual photons (radiative corrections). Including pseudoscalar GNI interactions [28], [29][30][31] and R SM π [27,32] are If both αe11 P,du and αµ11 P,du are allowed to vary simultaneously, no bound on either parameter is obtained because they are degenerate, as is evident from eq. (3.7). With the assumption that only one of P,du is nonzero, the 90% C.L. bounds are | αe11 P,du |< 6.2 × 10 −6 , and | αµ11 P,du |< 2.7 × 10 −3 . (3.9) Because the measured branching to the electron channel is tiny, αe11 P,du is highly constrained. These bounds are much stronger than the ones obtained in ref. [28], which assumed that both P,du and˜ P,du are simultaneously nonzero, which however, cannot be realized with the three SMNEFT operators considered here. The bounds on the coefficients of the lowenergy effective Lagrangian can be translated to bounds on the three SMNEFT WCs by adopting the relations in eq. (2.19), which display degeneracies between the SMNEFT WCs. We therefore bound the individual WCs by setting the other two to zero. The 90% C.L. bounds on the SMNEFT WCs are The correlations between the C N LdQ and C N LQu (C N LdQ ), with C N LdQ (C N LQu ) set to zero, are shown by the green lines in the upper (lower) panel of figure 1.
To circumvent the degeneracy in αe11 P,du and αµ11 P,du in eq. (3.7), we now apply the individual decay width measurements of π → ν[γ] to set the bounds. In the SM, the decay width at tree level is JHEP07(2020)207

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The theoretical uncertainties are mainly from calculations of the decay constant and radiative corrections. According to refs. [21,[32][33][34][35], The universal theoretical uncertainties yield (3.14) .00004)%, and τ π ± = 26.033 (5) ns [21]. The experimental uncertainties in the electron (muon) channel is 3.3 × 10 −3 (1.9 × 10 −4 ) and can be neglected. Assuming that the new physics contributions do not exceed the theoretical uncertainties, the bounds on αe11 P,du and αµ11 P,du are given by at the 90% C.L. By allowing only one WC to be nonzero at a time, the 90% C.L. bounds on the SMNEFT WCs derived from individual decay channels are

Nuclear beta decay
Nuclear β-decay is another low-energy probe that is sensitive to the new CC GNI interactions. The nucleon-level effective Lagrangian contributing to neutron beta decay, n → p + e − + ν e , is using eq. (2.7), where g V (A) is the (axial-)vector charge and g S,P,T are the nonstandard charges. Neglecting nucleon recoil and the pseudoscalar contribution in the q 2 → 0 limit, the neutron β decay width is where λ ≡ g V /g A and

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The decay width can also be written in terms of the NC effective couplings by using the relations in eq. (2.10): From ref. [36], the 90% C.L. bounds, based on the differential observables from polarized nuclear beta decay, are Bounds on the NC parameters can be computed by using the relations in eq. (2.10) with αe11 P,du taken to be 0: Degeneracies do not permit simultaneous bounds on all the SMNEFT WCs. With the assumption that only one of them is nonzero, the 90% C.L. bounds are These constraints are much weaker than the ones from charged pion decay.

Neutrino deep inelastic scattering
Neutrino deep inelastic scattering on nucleons can be modified by scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensor GNI. Please note that the charged current cannot be affected by the three GNI considered in this paper, as the right-handed neutrino is absent in the neutrino beams. The total charged current and neutral current neutrino-nucleon scattering cross sections in the SM are where we have neglected contributions from heavy quarks, and

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determine the fraction of nucleon momentum carried by quarks and anti-quarks. g L,f and g R,f are the SM effective couplings given in eq. (2.3). We take [37] g L,u = 0.3457 , g R,u = −0.1553 , g L,d = −0.4288 , g R,d = 0.0777 , (3.31) which include the one-loop and leading two-loop corrections. The neutral current is modified by scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensor GNI: where the flavor indices are suppressed for simplicity. In the following analysis, we assume the target is isoscalar and composed of free nucleons, so that we may use the proton PDF. Under these assumptions, the nuclear PDFs become The CHARM collaboration measured the ratio of total cross sections for semileptonic ν e and ν e scattering to be [38] The SM prediction from eqs. (3.26) to (3.29) is where Including the new GNI contributions from eqs. (3.32) and (3.33), R e becomes The 90% C.L. bounds on the LEFT parameters are With only a single constraint on R e , the degeneracy between the three SMNEFT WCs remains unbroken. The bounds on the SMNEFT WCs, with the assumption that only one of the WCs is nonzero at a time, are which are much weaker than the bounds from charged pion decay and nuclear beta decay.

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3.4.2 NuTeV: ν µ q → νq The NuTeV collaboration has measured the ratios of neutral current to charged current neutrino-nucleon cross sections [39]: (3.41) In the SM, the cross section ratios on an isoscalar target composed of free nucleons are where f q and f q determine the fraction of proton momentum carried by the first generation of quarks and anti-quarks: Here we used the CT10 PDFs [40] and the Mathematica package ManeParse [41] to obtain the numerical values of f q and f q at Q 2 = 20 GeV 2 . After including the contributions from scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensor GNI, R ν and R ν are (3.45) Using the numerical values in eq. (3.31) and (3.43), we obtain our naive SM values R ν SM = 0.32 and R ν SM = 0.37, which deviate significantly from the NuTeV measured values in eq. (3.41). Including nuclear effects, partonic charge symmetry violation and strange quarks resolves the NuTeV anomaly [42], bringing the experimental measurements in good agreement with the SM values R ν = 0.3950 and R ν = 0.4066. We simply rescale our naive SM calculations to the more accurate ones. We apply the same rescaling to the new physics contributions to set the 90% C.L. bounds, The degeneracies between the three SMNEFT WCs can be broken by the R ν and R ν measurements. JHEP07(2020)207

CEνNS
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering occurs when the momentum exchanged is smaller than the inverse of the nucleus size, which typically requires neutrino energies of O(10 MeV). The cross section is enhanced by the square of the number of nucleons, thus providing an excellent tool to investigate GNI at low energies. The COHERENT experiment has recently observed CEνNS in a low-threshold CsI detector at the 6.7σ level. This is consistent with the SM at 1σ [43]. The neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is comprised of prompt, monoenergetic ν µ from stopped pion decays, π + → µ + + ν µ , and ν µ and ν e from the subsequent muon decays, µ + → e + + ν µ + ν e .
The neutrino fluxes are where N is a normalization factor determined by the experimental setup. The ν µ energy is fixed at (m 2 π − m 2 µ )/(2m π ) ≈ 30 MeV due to the two-body pion decay. The ν e and ν µ energies have a kinematic upper bound, m µ /2 ≈ 50 MeV.
The differential cross section including scalar, vector, and tensor contributions reads [15] dσ β where a denotes the target material and α denotes the neutrino flavor. M a and N a are the molar mass of the target nucleus and neutron number of the target, respectively. The flavor index β = µ includes both ν µ and ν µ . F (q 2 ) is the nuclear form factor [44]. The maximum recoil energy E r,max = 2E 2 ν Ma+2Eν ≈ 2E 2 ν Ma . Since the typical recoil energy E r is O(10) keV, and the neutrino energy E ν is O(10) MeV, we can safely ignore the interference term between scalar and tensor interactions, which is proportional to E r /E ν . The ξ S , ξ V , and ξ T collect the contributions from scalar, vector, and tensor interactions, JHEP07(2020)207 respectively, and are defined as where f p T q and f n T q are the mass fractions of quark q in the respective nucleon, and the δ q 's are the corresponding nucleon tensor charges. The effective vector coupling g V,q is g V,q ≡ g L,q + g R,q . (3.51) The expected number of events per day with recoil energy in the energy range [E r , E r + ∆E r ] and arrival time in the time interval [t, t + ∆t] is given by where m det is the detector mass, N A = 6.022 × 10 23 mol −1 , and ρ α (t) is the arrival time probability density function. To calculate the differential neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section, we need to evaluate the matrix elements of the operators between nuclear states. We adopt the following numerical values of the nuclear matrix elements [45,46]   Following ref. [47], we study the current and projected constraints on the three GNI from the COHERENT experiment. Several COHERENT experiments with multiple targets have been proposed. In this study, we consider a future 750 kg liquid argon (LAr) detector with a 610 kg fiducial mass taking data for four years. The energy threshold is around 20 keV, which is higher than the 6.5 keV CsI energy threshold. The observed event distributions based on the SM simulations are shown in figure 2. The future LAr experiment will provide much more statistics even though it has a higher threshold of nuclear recoil energy. GNI can modify the shape of the recoil energy and temporal distributions. involving the muon flavor. Another observation from figure 3 is that COHERENT experiment is much more sensitive to the scalar interactions than tensor interactions. By using the energy spectrum of the current COHERENT data, we find that the current 90% C.L. bounds on the scalar or tensor interactions, allowing only a single nonzero parameter, are Also, the projected 90% C.L. bounds from future COHERENT data by using both the spectral and temporal information are which is an order of magnitude improvement. Again, the bounds are set based on only one of them being nonzero. The projected 90% C.L. bounds in the (ξ α S ) 2 -(ξ α T ) 2 plane are shown in figure 4. Because of degeneracies between the SMNEFT WCs in eq. (2.19), bounds on individual parameters cannot be placed if all the parameters are allowed to float. The bounds on the individual can be derived after running and matching. The current (projected) 90% C.L. bounds on SMNEFT WCs, after setting the others to zero, are

JHEP07(2020)207 4 Collider constraints
High-energy colliders can set strong bounds on the Wilson coefficients of scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensor interactions. In this section, we study the sensitivity to the WCs at proton-proton and electron-proton colliders. We set bounds using the LHC and evaluate the potential of the HL-LHC and LHeC to probe GNI. By integrating over the full phase space, we find the partonic cross sections of the SM mediated by the W boson and of the contact scalar and tensor interactions to be [48] LHC : where C S ∈ {C N LQu , C N LdQ }, C T = C N LdQ . Note that the ratios of the tensor to scalar cross sections,σ T /σ S , are 16/3 at the LHC and 112 at the LHeC. Clearly, the LHeC is much more sensitive to tensor interactions than scalar interactions. Owing to its lower center-of-mass energy, we expect bounds derived from the LHeC to be weaker than those from the LHC, given theŝ-dependence of the higher-dimensional operators.
The interference between chirality-flipped operators and SM operators are helicity suppressed, and the interference between the scalar (O N LdQ ) and tensor (O N LdQ ) interactions is generally nonzero. The differential distributions for the interference of the latter operators in the center-of-mass frame are found to be LHC: The interference leads to a linear asymmetry at the LHC and the integrated rate vanishes, while the integrated rate at the LHeC isσ ST = −G 2 Fŝ /3π(C * S C T + C * T C S ). The hadronic cross sections can be obtained by convolving with the parton distribution functions, In the following, we use the Monte Carlo event generator MadGraph5 aMC@NLO [49] to generate signal and background samples at the LHC and LHeC. The GNI Lagrangian is implemented in the FeynRules 2.0 [50] framework. PYTHIA8 [51] (PYTHIA6 [52]) is used for parton showering and hadronization at the LHC (LHeC). We perform the detector simulations using Delphes 3.4.1 [53]. Before evaluating the collider sensitivity to the Wilson coefficients, we note that our EFT description is valid only for √ŝ < Λ, which calls for an assumption about the energy JHEP07(2020)207 scale of the new physics. We consider two representative scenarios of the new physics scale, which we call low-scale new physics (LNP) with Λ ∼ 1 TeV, and high-scale new physics (HNP) with Λ 1 TeV. In the HNP case, we assume the EFT method to be valid for the entire energy scale relevant to LHC data. In the LNP case, however, we limit our analysis to a subset of the LHC data below 1 TeV.

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Both scalar and tensor CC contact interactions can be probed at high-energy protonproton colliders, under the assumption that the energy scale of the new dynamics is not kinematically accessible. The signal channel is the Drell-Yan (DY) process, pp → ν + X. Due to the missing neutrino in the final state, our analysis is based on the distribution of the transverse mass, which is reconstructed by the charged lepton transverse momentum (p T ) and the missing transverse momentum (E miss (4.6) The main background for large values of m T is DY production of W bosons. The latest analysis for charged lepton and missing transverse momentum events conducted by ATLAS used 139 fb −1 of data collected at √ s = 13 TeV [54]. In the rest of our study, we only use the m T distributions below 800 GeV for the LNP scenario, and the full range of m T for the HNP scenario. For our analyses, we define the statistical significance in terms of where n b(data),i is the number of background (observed) events in the i th bin, which is obtained directly from ref. [54]. n s,i is the number of signal events simulated in Madgraph at LO. σ i is the total systematic uncertainty, which is chosen according to ref. [54]: electron channel: σ e ∼ 10% (12%) for m T = 300 (2000) GeV; muon channel: σ µ ∼ 10% (17%) for m T = 300 (2000) GeV.
The current 90% C.L. bounds, defined by ∆χ 2 < 2.71, on the LNP (HNP) scalar and tensor operators are The bounds on C N LQu are slightly stronger than for C N LdQ because of the size of the CKM matrix element V ud . These bounds are consistent with those in ref. [54]. The 90% C.L. allowed regions in the C N LdQ -C N LQu and C N LdQ -C N LdQ planes are shown in the figure 1.

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The solid red (blue) contours correspond to the LNP (HNP) case. We have checked numerically using Madgraph that the interference between scalar operator O N LdQ and tensor operator O N LdQ can be ignored.
To assess the future potential of the LHC, we assume an integrated luminosity of L = 3 ab −1 and √ s = 14 TeV at the HL-LHC. In this analysis, we simulate the DY W background at LO multiplied by a scale factor obtained from ref. [54], to include other smaller backgrounds including top pairs, single top, W → τ ν, DY Z, and di-bosons. The signals are also generated at tree level. We do not include a K factor as it applies to both signal and background, so the significance is simply scaled by √ K after including higherorder corrections. The selection rules applied in this analysis are slightly different between the electron and muon final states. For the muon (electron) final states, we require • m T > 300 GeV, (4.10) in which, the electron p T cut is slightly stronger than the muon p T cut, in order to suppress the non-prompt backgrounds. The distributions of m T above 300 GeV after applying the cuts are shown in figure 5a. Deviations from the SM arise in the tails of the m T distributions because the sub-process cross sections for a dim-6 operator scale asŝ; see eq. (4.1). For the same size WC, tensor interactions have a larger cross section than scalar interactions. The χ 2 used in this analysis is defined in eq. (4.7), with n data replaced by the values from SM simulations. The projected 90% C.L. bounds on the LNP (HNP) scalar and tensor operators are The bounds from HL-LHC on scalar (tensor) interactions with the assumption of LNP are comparable with (much stronger than) the ones we obtained for the future COHERENT experiment. The dashed red (blue) contours in figure 1 show the 90% C.L. projections for the HL-LHC with the LNP (HNP) assumption. The bounds on the WCs are stronger for HNP than for LNP, because the signals in the high-energy tails of the m T distributions are not buried in the SM background. These bounds can be converted into limits on the effective couplings κ = |C|(Λ/v) for fixed values of the new physics scale Λ. The 90% C.L. bounds on κ are provided in table 2 for LNP (with Λ = 1 TeV) and HNP (with Λ = 10 TeV). As expected, bounds on κ are stronger in the LNP case than the HNP case. Alternatively, if we assume that κ ≈ 1, then HL-LHC bounds on the WCs for HNP imply a sensitivity to Λ ∼ 20 TeV. This is comparable to the expected sensitivity of W searches at the HL-LHC [55].   Table 2. Current and projected 90% C.L. bounds on the new physics coupling κ from LHC and HL-LHC data, respectively, for the LNP (Λ = 1 TeV) and HNP (Λ = 10 TeV) cases.

Electron-proton colliders
The HERA collaboration set bounds on the contact interaction eνqq using the charged current process, e ± p → (−) ν X, from the Q 2 and x distributions [56]. The lower bound on the mass scale of the contact term is around 1 TeV with the strong coupling ∼ 4π. This bound can be translated to our scenario: which is very weak compared to bounds from high-energy colliders. Next, we consider the future ep collider, LHeC, with √ s = 1.3 TeV (E e = 60 GeV, E p = 7 TeV) and L = 3 ab −1 . The signal channel is mono-jet, ep → jν + X, through the t-channel. The main background is mediated by SM W bosons. For the analysis we use the following set of basic cuts: • leading jet should have p j T > 20 GeV and |η j | < 2.5, • veto any electrons with p e T > 20 GeV and |η e | < 2.5, • the angular distance between jet and missing E T should be bigger than 0.4.
The distributions of the missing transverse energy above 100 GeV after applying the cuts are shown in figure 5b. To maximize our χ 2 = S 2 /B, in which we do not include systematic JHEP07(2020)207 uncertainties, we select the cut on the missing transverse energy as E miss T > 300 GeV. The projected 90% C.L. bounds on the individual SMNEFT WCs are with only one WC taken to be nonzero. If all parameters are allowed to be nonzero, the bounds weaken slightly due to the mixing between O N LdQ and O N LdQ : The projected 90% C.L. bounds on the C N LdQ -C N LQu and C N LdQ -C N LdQ are shown in figure 1 by the purple dashed contours. Due to the smaller center-of-mass energy, the bounds on the scalar interactions from LHeC are weaker than the ones from HL-LHC. However, for tensor interactions, the bounds from LHeC are stronger than HL-LHC for the LNP case.

Summary
New physics associated with neutrinos can be studied without theoretical prejudice, with allowance for scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial-vector and tensor interactions of neutrinos with SM fermions. If the new physics scale is much higher than the electroweak scale, it is appropriate to work in a model-independent EFT framework below the new physics scale. GNI operators below the electroweak scale are generated by EFT operators that respect the SM gauge symmetry.
In this work we studied scalar, pseudoscalar and tensor neutrino interactions in the framework of SMNEFT, which extends SMEFT with right-handed neutrinos. At the dimension-six level, these interactions are produced by three less constrained and phenomenologically interesting operators, namely O N LQu , O N LdQ , and O N LdQ as in section 2.2. Both neutral current and charged current interactions can be induced by a single operator, which can be explored in various experiments. To compare constraints from experiments at different energy scales, we perform the RG running above and below the weak scale, and map all the bounds into the parameter space of three WCs C N LQu , C N LdQ , and C N LdQ at 1 TeV. We summarize the current and projected experimental bounds on the three WCs in tables 3 and 4. The correlations between the three operators are shown in figure 1. Our main conclusions are:  Table 3. Current 90% C.L. bounds on the three SMNEFT WCs C N LQu , C N LdQ , and C N LdQ , for the electron and muon flavors at a 1 TeV energy scale. The constraints obtained by allowing all WCs to simultaneously vary are in boldface.

A 1-loop RG running
We define the SMNEFT Lagrangian as   where O (0) is the operator in terms of bare fields. Z 4ψ,i are the four-fermion field strength renormalizations obtained from the self-energy diagrams: where the fermion field strengths are Here α i ≡ g 2 i 4π , and Y ψ is hypercharge of the fermion. Z i are the corrections from counterterms which cancels the UV divergence from the 1-loop Feynman diagrams shown in figure 6. We have used FeynCalc [57,58] to extract the UV divergence from the one-loop integrals. The expressions for Z i are .
(A.8) Z 2 and Z 3 can introduce mixing between C 2 and C 3 from the weak running. The renormalization group equations of the WCs then arise from the fact that the bare operators and Lagrangian are independent of the renormalization scale µ, It is then straightforward to calculate the anomalous dimension matrix γ ij which yield the results shown in eq. (2.11). Following a similar procedure, the anomalous dimension matrix for the CC and NC WCs below the weak scale are obtained by evaluating the one-loop vertex corrections and counterterms in figures 7 and 8, respectively.
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