The mass plateau that lied: excited-state contamination in a two-point function
A clean-looking lattice effective-mass plateau gave a confident wrong mass. Multi-exponential fits + t_min scan + GEVP killed the fake resonance. Why single-exp, visual plateaus, and more statistics gave false confidence.
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