Two channels for the top–antitop excess

1 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by visha1v

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visha1v

9 hours ago

With the current sensitivity, interpretations beyond the Standard Model cannot be excluded. A pseudoscalar heavy Higgs decaying into top-quark pairs would interfere strongly with the continuum, creating a characteristic peak-dip structure in the invariant tt mass. With enough statistics, this feature could be used to differentiate it from a quasi-bound state