
Over the past year, José de Blas developed advanced features and robust infrastructure for the silvest/HEPfit repository, focusing on Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and collider phenomenology. He engineered new physics models, expanded observable coverage across energy scales, and implemented precision calculations for Higgs and electroweak processes. Using C++ and numerical analysis, José refactored code for maintainability, introduced multi-flavor and polarization-aware frameworks, and improved data integrity with enhanced error handling. His work addressed both feature expansion and bug resolution, resulting in a codebase that supports rigorous global fits, future collider scenarios, and reliable high-energy physics predictions.

October 2025 performance summary for silvest/HEPfit focused on strengthening SMEFT calculations, expanding observables, and improving reporting and modularity to enable robust SMEFT fits and future collider work.
October 2025 performance summary for silvest/HEPfit focused on strengthening SMEFT calculations, expanding observables, and improving reporting and modularity to enable robust SMEFT fits and future collider work.
September 2025 (2025-09) monthly performance summary for silvest/HEPfit. Key features delivered span FCC-hh observables and likelihoods, enhanced polarization handling for ee->ff and Bhabha scattering, SMEFT width and eeZH calculations extensions, and SMEFT foundations with new coefficients and observables. A set of quality and reliability improvements were completed, including W decay width uncertainty parameters. Major bugs fixed include sign conventions for dipole operators, a typo in eeZH, and NetBeans IDE configuration. The work strengthens physics accuracy, expands the observable and EFT reach, and improves maintainability and developer experience.
September 2025 (2025-09) monthly performance summary for silvest/HEPfit. Key features delivered span FCC-hh observables and likelihoods, enhanced polarization handling for ee->ff and Bhabha scattering, SMEFT width and eeZH calculations extensions, and SMEFT foundations with new coefficients and observables. A set of quality and reliability improvements were completed, including W decay width uncertainty parameters. Major bugs fixed include sign conventions for dipole operators, a typo in eeZH, and NetBeans IDE configuration. The work strengthens physics accuracy, expands the observable and EFT reach, and improves maintainability and developer experience.
2025-08 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit focusing on business value, technical achievements, and cross-energy readiness. Delivered feature expansions and critical fixes to broaden prediction scope and improve accuracy across energy regimes.
2025-08 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit focusing on business value, technical achievements, and cross-energy readiness. Delivered feature expansions and critical fixes to broaden prediction scope and improve accuracy across energy regimes.
Month 2025-07: Delivered NPd6SILH physics model integration into HEPfit's ModelFactory with an expanded parameter set, normalized naming, and new parameters to support enhanced physics simulations and analyses. This work establishes groundwork for broader phenomenology studies and improves modeling fidelity across analyses.
Month 2025-07: Delivered NPd6SILH physics model integration into HEPfit's ModelFactory with an expanded parameter set, normalized naming, and new parameters to support enhanced physics simulations and analyses. This work establishes groundwork for broader phenomenology studies and improves modeling fidelity across analyses.
June 2025: Expanded physics coverage and reliability in silvest/HEPfit. Delivered extensive expression updates for hh (14–100 TeV) and ep, plus updates for e+e- and μ+μ- Higgs processes, updated e+e- → W+W-, and H→VV via four-fermion final states. Enabled future-collider readiness with 550 GeV, 84 TeV, and MuC10 configurations. Introduced Multiscale RGE support and boosted ttH/ttZ calculations, along with new EW effective couplings and auxiliary observables. Consolidated gains with code cleanup and a suite of bug fixes that improved WC evaluation, polarization handling, missing energies accounting (including LEP3), and NLO corrections in the W mass scheme.
June 2025: Expanded physics coverage and reliability in silvest/HEPfit. Delivered extensive expression updates for hh (14–100 TeV) and ep, plus updates for e+e- and μ+μ- Higgs processes, updated e+e- → W+W-, and H→VV via four-fermion final states. Enabled future-collider readiness with 550 GeV, 84 TeV, and MuC10 configurations. Introduced Multiscale RGE support and boosted ttH/ttZ calculations, along with new EW effective couplings and auxiliary observables. Consolidated gains with code cleanup and a suite of bug fixes that improved WC evaluation, polarization handling, missing energies accounting (including LEP3), and NLO corrections in the W mass scheme.
Monthly summary for 2025-05 focusing on the delivery of extended SMEFT capabilities in the silvest/HEPfit repository. Key work involved implementing multi-flavor BASIS support and introducing new Wilson coefficients to broaden SMEFT model coverage for top-quark interactions. No major bugs reported or fixed this month based on available data.
Monthly summary for 2025-05 focusing on the delivery of extended SMEFT capabilities in the silvest/HEPfit repository. Key work involved implementing multi-flavor BASIS support and introducing new Wilson coefficients to broaden SMEFT model coverage for top-quark interactions. No major bugs reported or fixed this month based on available data.
April 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit. Key features delivered include Higgs Observable Enhancements with higher-order quadratic effects and polarization handling, and the Rstrange observable for Z → strange quark pair decays. These were accompanied by refactoring to unify polarized and unpolarized observables and reduce redundancies, improving maintainability and usability in polarization-aware analyses. Overall impact includes expanded EWPO coverage, improved prediction precision for Higgs-related processes, and a clearer observable framework for future developments. Technologies and skills demonstrated include advanced C++/Python refactoring, modular observable design, factory registration patterns, and enhanced testability of new observables.
April 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit. Key features delivered include Higgs Observable Enhancements with higher-order quadratic effects and polarization handling, and the Rstrange observable for Z → strange quark pair decays. These were accompanied by refactoring to unify polarized and unpolarized observables and reduce redundancies, improving maintainability and usability in polarization-aware analyses. Overall impact includes expanded EWPO coverage, improved prediction precision for Higgs-related processes, and a clearer observable framework for future developments. Technologies and skills demonstrated include advanced C++/Python refactoring, modular observable design, factory registration patterns, and enhanced testability of new observables.
March 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit: Delivered notable enhancements to electroweak precision tests and Higgs phenomenology within SMEFT-enabled framework. Expanded EWPO coverage with SMEFT integration, improved uncertainty handling, and robust SMEFT-operator alignment at the electroweak scale. Introduced new Higgs observables and extensions to accommodate SMEFT/Higgs-portal calculations, including loop-corrected terms and additional ttH/ttZ ratio observables. Enhanced LEP2 differential cross-section calculations with angular binning support. Fixed Higgs invisible decay BR calculations to ensure consistent observable predictions across related classes. These efforts improve precision, broaden observable coverage, and strengthen the codebase for rigorous SM tests and new physics constraints.
March 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit: Delivered notable enhancements to electroweak precision tests and Higgs phenomenology within SMEFT-enabled framework. Expanded EWPO coverage with SMEFT integration, improved uncertainty handling, and robust SMEFT-operator alignment at the electroweak scale. Introduced new Higgs observables and extensions to accommodate SMEFT/Higgs-portal calculations, including loop-corrected terms and additional ttH/ttZ ratio observables. Enhanced LEP2 differential cross-section calculations with angular binning support. Fixed Higgs invisible decay BR calculations to ensure consistent observable predictions across related classes. These efforts improve precision, broaden observable coverage, and strengthen the codebase for rigorous SM tests and new physics constraints.
February 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit: - Key features delivered across the codebase, focusing on robustness, energy-scale coverage, and observable definitions: • Covariance matrix definiteness warnings for observables and parameters to catch ill-conditioned inputs before inversion, improving data integrity and preventing silent calculation errors. • Expanded energy-dependent observables handling with cleanup: refactored energy-point handling, expanded range, and removal of redundant blocks for consistent, accurate calculations across energy scales. • T-channel subtracted observables for e+ e- scattering: new definitions for cross-sections, ratios, and asymmetries; added classes and factory entries; LEP2 angular cuts aligned with conventions. • Higgs decay width ratio observables: new observables measuring ratios of Higgs widths to various final states relative to SM values, enabling refined Higgs property analyses. - Major bugs fixed: preventative data integrity checks (covariance definiteness warnings) reduce the risk of incorrect inversions and silent failures when inputs are ill-conditioned. - Overall impact and Accomplishments: expanded observable coverage, improved numerical reliability, and stronger alignment with established analysis standards, resulting in more robust EFT constraints and Higgs property studies. - Technologies/Skills demonstrated: numerical linear algebra checks, refactoring of energy-dependent observable handling, object-oriented definitions for new observables, LEP2 convention adherence, version control discipline (commits visible in the description).
February 2025 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit: - Key features delivered across the codebase, focusing on robustness, energy-scale coverage, and observable definitions: • Covariance matrix definiteness warnings for observables and parameters to catch ill-conditioned inputs before inversion, improving data integrity and preventing silent calculation errors. • Expanded energy-dependent observables handling with cleanup: refactored energy-point handling, expanded range, and removal of redundant blocks for consistent, accurate calculations across energy scales. • T-channel subtracted observables for e+ e- scattering: new definitions for cross-sections, ratios, and asymmetries; added classes and factory entries; LEP2 angular cuts aligned with conventions. • Higgs decay width ratio observables: new observables measuring ratios of Higgs widths to various final states relative to SM values, enabling refined Higgs property analyses. - Major bugs fixed: preventative data integrity checks (covariance definiteness warnings) reduce the risk of incorrect inversions and silent failures when inputs are ill-conditioned. - Overall impact and Accomplishments: expanded observable coverage, improved numerical reliability, and stronger alignment with established analysis standards, resulting in more robust EFT constraints and Higgs property studies. - Technologies/Skills demonstrated: numerical linear algebra checks, refactoring of energy-dependent observable handling, object-oriented definitions for new observables, LEP2 convention adherence, version control discipline (commits visible in the description).
January 2025: Consolidated SMEFT/NPSMEFT development for precision collider phenomenology in silvest/HEPfit. Delivered EFT-aware cross-section and observable capabilities for e+e- and top/Higgs sectors, while reinforcing code quality, testing, and consistency with collider conventions. The work lays the groundwork for robust global fits and collider-ready predictions with improved NLO accuracy, polarization support, and multi-scale RGE handling.
January 2025: Consolidated SMEFT/NPSMEFT development for precision collider phenomenology in silvest/HEPfit. Delivered EFT-aware cross-section and observable capabilities for e+e- and top/Higgs sectors, while reinforcing code quality, testing, and consistency with collider conventions. The work lays the groundwork for robust global fits and collider-ready predictions with improved NLO accuracy, polarization support, and multi-scale RGE handling.
December 2024 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit focusing on business value and technical achievements. The team delivered expanded Higgs SMEFT capability with strange-quark observables, improved data integrity for Higgs TH observables, and broadened SMEFT/NPSMEFTd6 framework to support collider observables and EWPO with NLO corrections, while fixing key numerical and symmetry edge cases. These changes extend physics coverage, improve numerical stability, and position the codebase for more robust phenomenology and future corrections.
December 2024 monthly summary for silvest/HEPfit focusing on business value and technical achievements. The team delivered expanded Higgs SMEFT capability with strange-quark observables, improved data integrity for Higgs TH observables, and broadened SMEFT/NPSMEFTd6 framework to support collider observables and EWPO with NLO corrections, while fixing key numerical and symmetry edge cases. These changes extend physics coverage, improve numerical stability, and position the codebase for more robust phenomenology and future corrections.
November 2024 performance summary for silvest/HEPfit. Focused on delivering precision enhancements in SM/SMEFT calculations, expanding Higgs interaction modeling, and establishing a foundation for broader SMEFT analyses. Introduced a new SMEFT dimension-6 model and extended Higgs decay predictions with NLO corrections and new observables, improving physics reach and reliability for EW/Higgs studies.
November 2024 performance summary for silvest/HEPfit. Focused on delivering precision enhancements in SM/SMEFT calculations, expanding Higgs interaction modeling, and establishing a foundation for broader SMEFT analyses. Introduced a new SMEFT dimension-6 model and extended Higgs decay predictions with NLO corrections and new observables, improving physics reach and reliability for EW/Higgs studies.
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