These proceedings introduce the main techniques and ideas for a systematic
effective field theory analysis of CP violation in the charged lepton sector.
This study is required because the Standard Model of particle physics predicts
a very high degree of CP violation suppression in the lepton sector, and this
implies that possible new physics effects can be parameterised in terms of new
interactions among the Standard Model fields, in the framework of the so-called
Standard Model Effective Field Theory. In analogy with previous investigations
of charged lepton flavour violating observables, this document illustrates how
the current limits on leptonic CP violation coming from the electric-dipole
moment of the leptons can be recast into constraints on the effective
coefficients defined at a given decoupling scale. Furthermore, important bounds
acting on previously unconstrained parameters are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, 5 table
