%0 Journal Article %A Krause, Claudius %A Pich, Antonio %A Rosell, Ignasi %A Santos, Joaquín %A Sanz Cillero, Juan José %T Colorful imprints of heavy states in the electroweak effective theory %D 2019 %@ 1029-8479 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12874 %X We analyze heavy states from generic ultraviolet completions of the Standard Model in a model-independent way and investigate their implications on the low-energy couplings of the electroweak effective theory. We build a general effective Lagrangian, implementing the electroweak symmetry breaking SU(2)L ⊗ SU(2)R → SU(2)L+R with a non-linear Nambu-Goldstone realization, which couples the known particles to the heavy states. We generalize the formalism developed in previous works [1, 2] to include colored resonances, both of bosonic and fermionic type. We study bosonic heavy states with JP = 0± and JP = 1±, in singlet or triplet SU(2)L+R representations and in singlet or octet representations of SU(3)C , and fermionic resonances with J=12 that are electroweak doublets and QCD triplets or singlets. Integrating out the heavy scales, we determine the complete pattern of low-energy couplings at the lowest non-trivial order. Some specific types of (strongly- and weakly-coupled) ultraviolet completions are discussed to illustrate the generality of our approach and to make contact with current experimental searches. %~