Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detectorShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 27662018 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 97, no 7, article id 072016Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, t(t)overbarH, is presented. The analysis uses 36.1 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The search targets the H -> b(b)overbar decay mode. The selected events contain either one or two electrons or muons from the top-quark decays, and are then categorized according to the number of jets and how likely these are to contain b-hadrons. Multivariate techniques are used to discriminate between signal and background events, the latter being dominated by ft + jets production. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the ratio of the measured t(t)overbarH signal cross-section to the standard model expectation is found to be mu = 0.84(-0.61)(+0.64). A value of mu greater than 2.0 is excluded at 95% confidence level (C.L.) while the expected upper limit is mu < 1.2 in the absence of a t(t)overbarH signal.
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American Physical Society, 2018. Vol. 97, no 7, article id 072016
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Physical Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-241251DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016ISI: 000432959900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85046789896OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-241251DiVA, id: diva2:1279254
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QC 20190116
2019-01-162019-01-162024-03-15Bibliographically approved