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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, \( m\left(t\overline{t}\right) \). We make use of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo event simulation to perform a direct comparison with measurements of \( m\left(t\overline{t}\right) \) 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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Franzosi, D.B., Fabbri, F. & Schumann, S. Constraining scalar resonances with top-quark pair production at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 22 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)022
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