Electric Dipole Moments as Precision Probes of CP-Violating Top-Quark Interactions in SMEFT

Abstract

Electric dipole moments (EDMs) provide some of the most sensitive probes of CP-violating interactions beyond the Standard Model (SM). Within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), we investigate constraints on CP-violating top-quark interactions using current and projected leptonic and hadronic EDM measurements. Our analysis incorporates the complete chain of relevant effects, including one- and two-loop matching, Barr-Zee contributions, Weinberg operator and heavy-quark threshold corrections, and renormalization-group induced operator mixing. We demonstrate the strong complementarity between leptonic and hadronic EDM observables and show that future proton EDM searches could significantly strengthen constraints on several CP-violating top-quark interactions.