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Search for Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair in pp collisions

We present a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quark pairs in the 5~fb$^{-1}$ of 7 TeV $pp$ collision data collected by CMS in 2011. We look for $t\bar{t}+H$ events where the Higgs decays to $b\bar{b}$ and the top quark pair decays to either lepton plus jets...

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Autor principal: Brinkerhoff, Andrew Wilson
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1522321
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Sumario:We present a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quark pairs in the 5~fb$^{-1}$ of 7 TeV $pp$ collision data collected by CMS in 2011. We look for $t\bar{t}+H$ events where the Higgs decays to $b\bar{b}$ and the top quark pair decays to either lepton plus jets ($t\bar{t} \rightarrow l\nu jjbb$) or dileptons ($t\bar{t} \rightarrow l\nu l\nu bb$). Using artificial neural networks, we achieve an expected limit of 4.6 times the standard model expectation on the $H \rightarrow b\bar{b}$ cross section for a Higgs mass of 125 GeV/c$^2$, while the observed limit is 3.8 times the standard model expectation.