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Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector

A great success of the Standard Model (SM) was the discovery of a Higgs boson in 2012. Measuring its properties and yet unobserved production and decay modes provides a test of the validity of the SM. The process of Higgs production in association with a pair of top-quarks ($t\bar{t}H$) is still uno...

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Autor principal: Wolf, Tim Michael Heinz
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2632314
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description A great success of the Standard Model (SM) was the discovery of a Higgs boson in 2012. Measuring its properties and yet unobserved production and decay modes provides a test of the validity of the SM. The process of Higgs production in association with a pair of top-quarks ($t\bar{t}H$) is still unobserved. Further interest arises from the fact that it provides direct access to the top Yukawa coupling which is possibly sensitive to new physics and therefore provides a crucial test of the SM. In order to maximize the statistics of the data sample of the $t\bar{t}H$ process the final state of the Higgs decay with the highest branching ratio into a pair of $b$-quarks has been chosen for this search. This summary is based on the recently published results using $36.1 fb^{-1}$ in pp collisions collected with the Atlas detector in 2015 and 2016. Especially the reconstruction techniques to correctly match the jets originating from $b$-quarks to their origin, are reviewed. The measurement in the $t\bar{t}H(b\bar{b})$ final state is put in context with the combination of the other Higgs decay modes, resulting in evidence for this process.
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spelling cern-26323142019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2632314engWolf, Tim Michael HeinzSearch for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detectorParticle Physics - ExperimentA great success of the Standard Model (SM) was the discovery of a Higgs boson in 2012. Measuring its properties and yet unobserved production and decay modes provides a test of the validity of the SM. The process of Higgs production in association with a pair of top-quarks ($t\bar{t}H$) is still unobserved. Further interest arises from the fact that it provides direct access to the top Yukawa coupling which is possibly sensitive to new physics and therefore provides a crucial test of the SM. In order to maximize the statistics of the data sample of the $t\bar{t}H$ process the final state of the Higgs decay with the highest branching ratio into a pair of $b$-quarks has been chosen for this search. This summary is based on the recently published results using $36.1 fb^{-1}$ in pp collisions collected with the Atlas detector in 2015 and 2016. Especially the reconstruction techniques to correctly match the jets originating from $b$-quarks to their origin, are reviewed. The measurement in the $t\bar{t}H(b\bar{b})$ final state is put in context with the combination of the other Higgs decay modes, resulting in evidence for this process.ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2018-535oai:cds.cern.ch:26323142018-07-25
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Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title_full Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title_fullStr Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title_full_unstemmed Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title_short Search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the Atlas detector
title_sort search for higgs boson production in association with a pair of top-quarks with the atlas detector
topic Particle Physics - Experiment
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