Opportunistic CP violation

Abstract: In the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, CP violation arises through a very particular interplay between the three quark generations, as described by the Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa (CKM) mechanism and the single Jarlskog invariant

J_{4}

. Once generalized to the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), this peculiar pattern gets modified by higher-dimensional operators, whose associated Wilson coefficients are usually split into CP-even and odd parts. However, CP violation at dimension four, i.e., at the lowest order in the EFT expansion, blurs this distinction: any Wilson coefficient can interfere with

J_{4}

and mediate CP violation. In this paper, we study such interferences at first order in the SMEFT expansion,

m a t h c a l O (1 / L a m b d a^{2})

, and we capture their associated parameter space via a set of 1551 linear CP-odd flavor invariants. This construction describes both new, genuinely CP-violating quantities as well as the interference between

J_{4}

and CP-conserving ones. We call this latter possibility extit{opportunistic CP violation}. Relying on an appropriate extension of the matrix rank to Taylor expansions, which we dub emph{Taylor rank}, we define a procedure to organize the invariants in terms of their magnitude, so as to retain only the relevant ones at a given precision. We explore how this characterization changes when different assumptions are made on the flavor structure of the SMEFT coefficients. Interestingly, some of the CP-odd invariants turn out to be less suppressed than

J_{4}

, even when they capture opportunistic CPV, demonstrating that CP-violation in the SM, at dimension 4, is extit{accidentally small.}

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