Toponia at the HL-LHC and FCC-ee
摘要
The hint of a pseudoscalar toponium state at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) opens a new avenue for studying a novel class of QCD (quasi-)bound states with comparable formation and decay times. Compared with charmonium and bottomonium, toponium is a quasi-bound state, resembling a hydrogen atom of the strong interaction, although it appears as a broader resonance. We compute the masses and annihilation decay widths of the lowest S-wave (ηt, ψt) and P-wave (χt0, χt1) toponium states, and assess their discovery prospects at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and future lepton colliders, such as the e+e− stage of the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee). Detecting the vector ψt state at the HL-LHC is hindered by the Landau-Yang theorem and the gluon-dominated production environment of the collider, whereas lepton colliders offer promising sensitivity through both constituent and two-body decays. A more precise measurement of the ηt mass-approximately equal to that of ψt-at the LHC could help determine the optimal