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Constraining scalar resonances with top-quark pair production at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-28 v2

Abstract

Constraints on models which predict resonant top-quark pair production at the LHC are provided via a reinterpretation of the Standard Model (SM) particle level measurement of the top-anti-top invariant mass distribution, m(ttˉ)m(t\bar{t}). We make use of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo event simulation to perform a direct comparison with measurements of m(ttˉ)m(t\bar{t}) in the semi-leptonic channels, considering both the boosted and the resolved regime of the hadronic top decays. A simplified model to describe various scalar resonances decaying into top-quarks is considered, including CP-even and CP-odd, color-singlet and color-octet states, and the excluded regions in the respective parameter spaces are provided.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00102,
  title  = {Constraining scalar resonances with top-quark pair production at the LHC},
  author = {Diogo Buarque Franzosi and Federica Fabbri and Steffen Schumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00102},
  year   = {2018}
}

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34 pages, 17 figures