New physics in toponium's shadow?
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| author | Flacke, Thomas Fuks, Benjamin Kim, Dongchan Kim, Jinheung Lee, Seung J. Munoz-Aillaud, Léandre |
| author_facet | Flacke, Thomas Fuks, Benjamin Kim, Dongchan Kim, Jinheung Lee, Seung J. Munoz-Aillaud, Léandre |
| contents | ATLAS and CMS have recently reported enhancements in the top-antitop production rate near threshold, a region where non-perturbative QCD dynamics associated with toponium formation become relevant. We investigate how this behaviour is modified in the presence of a neutral pseudoscalar that couples to gluons and top quarks, using an effective description that consistently incorporates perturbative Standard Model and new physics contributions, their interference and non-perturbative threshold effects. We show that the combined effect of those ingredients markedly shapes the viable region of the pseudoscalar parameter space, particularly for narrow resonances with masses close to twice the top mass. While Standard Model threshold effects could explain a sizeable part of the measured enhancements, the current data remain compatible with additional contributions from pseudoscalar interactions. |
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| spellingShingle | New physics in toponium's shadow? Flacke, Thomas Fuks, Benjamin Kim, Dongchan Kim, Jinheung Lee, Seung J. Munoz-Aillaud, Léandre High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment ATLAS and CMS have recently reported enhancements in the top-antitop production rate near threshold, a region where non-perturbative QCD dynamics associated with toponium formation become relevant. We investigate how this behaviour is modified in the presence of a neutral pseudoscalar that couples to gluons and top quarks, using an effective description that consistently incorporates perturbative Standard Model and new physics contributions, their interference and non-perturbative threshold effects. We show that the combined effect of those ingredients markedly shapes the viable region of the pseudoscalar parameter space, particularly for narrow resonances with masses close to twice the top mass. While Standard Model threshold effects could explain a sizeable part of the measured enhancements, the current data remain compatible with additional contributions from pseudoscalar interactions. |
| title | New physics in toponium's shadow? |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03220 |