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The passage around this formula

SMEFT occupies a different position in this comparison because it is not competing to be the correct underlying theory — it is a bookkeeping framework for any underlying theory heavy enough to not yet have been produced directly. Concretely, SMEFT adds effective operators to the Standard Model Lagrangian, each suppressed by powers of an energy scale $\Lambda$ representing the mass of whatever new particles generate it: $\mathcal{L}_{\text{SMEFT}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{SM}} + \sum_i \frac{c_i}{\Lambda^{2}} \mathcal{O}_i^{(6)} + \mathcal{O}\!\left(\frac{1}{\Lambda^{4}}\right)$. where each $\mathcal{O}_i^{(6)}$ is a dimension-six operator built from Standard Model fields and $c_i$ is a dimensionless Wilson coefficient set by the details of the underlying theory. This notation is worth showing because it makes the comparison’s real…

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