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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b¯b pair in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aaboud, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abidi, SH; Abouzeid, OS; ... Arai, Y; + view all (2018) Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b¯b pair in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D , 97 (7) , Article 072016. 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016. Green open access

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Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, ttH, is presented. The analysis uses 36.1 fb-1 of pp collision data at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The search targets the H→bb 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 tt+jets production. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the ratio of the measured ttH signal cross-section to the standard model expectation is found to be μ=0.84-0.61+0.64. A value of μ greater than 2.0 is excluded at 95% confidence level (C.L.) while the expected upper limit is μ < 1.2 in the absence of a ttH signal.

Type: Article
Title: Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b¯b pair in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049491
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