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@ARTICLE{Hayrapetyan:628945,
author = {Hayrapetyan, Aram and others},
collaboration = {{CMS Collaboration}},
title = {{O}bservation of a pseudoscalar excess at the top quark
pair production threshold},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01748, arXiv:2503.22382. CMS-TOP-24-007.
CERN-EP-2025-061},
year = {2025},
note = {Submitted to Reports on Progress in Physics. All figures
and tables can be found at
http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-24-007
(CMS Public Pages)},
abstract = {A search for resonances in top quark pair
($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$) production in final states with
two charged leptons and multiple jets is presented, based on
proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment
at the CERN LHC at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, corresponding to 138
fb$^{-1}$. The analysis explores the invariant mass of the
\ttbar system and two angular observables that provide
direct access to the correlation of top quark and antiquark
spins. A significant excess of events is observed near the
kinematic $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ threshold compared to the
nonresonant production predicted by fixed-order perturbative
quantum chromodynamics (pQCD). The observed enhancement is
consistent with the production of a color-singlet
pseudoscalar ($^1$S$^{[1]}_0$) quasi-bound toponium state,
as predicted by nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics.
Using a simplified model for $^1$S$^{[1]}_0$ toponium, the
cross section of the excess above the pQCD prediction is
measured to be 8.8$^{+1.2}_{-1.4}$ pb.},
cin = {CMS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)CMS-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) /
HIDSS-0002 - DASHH: Data Science in Hamburg - Helmholtz
Graduate School for the Structure of Matter
$(2019_IVF-HIDSS-0002)$ / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)390833306 -
EXC 2121: Quantum Universe (390833306)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611 / $G:(DE-HGF)2019_IVF-HIDSS-0002$ /
G:(GEPRIS)390833306},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-CMS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
eprint = {2503.22382},
howpublished = {arXiv:2503.22382},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2503.22382;\%\%$},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2025-01748},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/628945},
}