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.
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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 |
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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 |
Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS 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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