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The violation of the Lam-Tung relation in the high- $p_T^{\ell \ell }$region of the Drell-Yan process at the LHC presents a longstanding discrepancy with the standard model prediction at $\mathcal{O}\left({\alpha }_s^3\right)$accuracy. In this paper, we employed a model-independent analysis to investigate this phenomenon within the framework of the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). Our findings revealed that the leading contributions from SMEFT to this violation appear at the $1/{\mathrm{\Lambda }}^4$order with $\mathcal{O}\left({\alpha }_s\right)$accuracy in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) interaction. Notably, we demonstrated that the quadratic effect of dimension-6 dipole operators, associated with the $Z$boson, dominates the breaking effects induced by various dimension-6 and dimension-8 operators. This provides a possible explanation for the observed discrepancy with the Standard Model predictions at the LHC. Furthermore, the breaking effects could also serve as a powerful tool for constraining $Z$-boson dipole interactions, highlighting their importance among potential sources of new physics in the Drell-Yan process. Published by the American Physical Society2025 

Supported noble metal catalysts, ubiquitous in chemical technology, often undergo dynamic transformations between reduced and oxidized states—which influence the metal nuclearities, oxidation states, and catalytic properties. 

WWTPs have been regarded as an important hot spot of ARGs. The discharge point of WWTP effluent, where ARGs may be horizontally transferred from bacteria of treated wastewater to bacteria of receiving water, is an important interface between the human-dominated ecosystem and the natural environment.