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Two channels for the top–antitop excess (cerncourier.com)
1 points by visha1v 28 days ago
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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