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Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into b(b)over-bar produced in association with top quarks decaying hadronically in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdallah, J; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Aben, R; Abolins, M; ... Zwalinski, L; + view all (2016) Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into b(b)over-bar produced in association with top quarks decaying hadronically in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics , 2016 (5) , Article 160. 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)160. Green open access

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Abstract

A search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top quarks (tt ¯ H tt¯H ) is performed, where the Higgs boson decays to bb ¯ ¯ bb¯ , and both top quarks decay hadronically. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 of pp collisions at s √ =8 s=8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search selects events with at least six energetic jets and uses a boosted decision tree algorithm to discriminate between signal and Standard Model background. The dominant multijet background is estimated using a dedicated data-driven technique. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an upper limit of 6.4 (5.4) times the Standard Model cross section is observed (expected) at 95% confidence level. The best-fit value for the signal strength is μ = 1.6 ± 2.6 times the Standard Model expectation for mH = 125 GeV. Combining all tt ¯ H tt¯H searches carried out by ATLAS at s √ =8 s=8 and 7 TeV, an observed (expected) upper limit of 3.1 (1.4) times the Standard Model expectation is obtained at 95% confidence level, with a signal strength μ = 1.7 ± 0.8.

Type: Article
Title: Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into b(b)over-bar produced in association with top quarks decaying hadronically in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)160
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)160
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
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/1500640
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