Distorting the Top Resonance with Effective Interactions
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| author | Egle, Felix Englert, Christoph Mühlleitner, Margarete Spannowsky, Michael |
| author_facet | Egle, Felix Englert, Christoph Mühlleitner, Margarete Spannowsky, Michael |
| contents | Interference effects in effective field theory (EFT) analyses can significantly distort sensitivity expectations, leaving subtle yet distinct signatures in the reconstruction of final states crucial for limit setting around Standard Model predictions. Using the specific example of four-fermion operators in top-quark pair production at the LHC, we provide a detailed quantitative assessment of these resonance distortions. We explore how continuum four-fermion interactions affect the resonance shapes, creating potential tensions between the high-statistics resonance regions and rare, high momentum-transfer continuum excesses. Our findings indicate that although four-fermion interactions do modify the on-shell region comparably to continuum enhancements, current experimental strategies at the High-Luminosity LHC are unlikely to capture these subtle interference-induced distortions. Nonetheless, such effects could become critical for precision analyses at future lepton colliders, such as the FCC-ee. Our work underscores the importance of resonance-shape measurements as complementary probes in global EFT approaches, guiding robust and self-consistent experimental strategies in ongoing and future high-energy physics programmes. |
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| spellingShingle | Distorting the Top Resonance with Effective Interactions Egle, Felix Englert, Christoph Mühlleitner, Margarete Spannowsky, Michael High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Interference effects in effective field theory (EFT) analyses can significantly distort sensitivity expectations, leaving subtle yet distinct signatures in the reconstruction of final states crucial for limit setting around Standard Model predictions. Using the specific example of four-fermion operators in top-quark pair production at the LHC, we provide a detailed quantitative assessment of these resonance distortions. We explore how continuum four-fermion interactions affect the resonance shapes, creating potential tensions between the high-statistics resonance regions and rare, high momentum-transfer continuum excesses. Our findings indicate that although four-fermion interactions do modify the on-shell region comparably to continuum enhancements, current experimental strategies at the High-Luminosity LHC are unlikely to capture these subtle interference-induced distortions. Nonetheless, such effects could become critical for precision analyses at future lepton colliders, such as the FCC-ee. Our work underscores the importance of resonance-shape measurements as complementary probes in global EFT approaches, guiding robust and self-consistent experimental strategies in ongoing and future high-energy physics programmes. |
| title | Distorting the Top Resonance with Effective Interactions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19841 |