Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/9607
Title: Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector
Authors: Aaboud, M.
Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdinov, O.
Abeloos, B.
Abidi, S. H.
Adye, T.
Keywords: Production Cross-Section
Parton Distributions
Pp Collisions
Monte-Carlo
8 Tev
Root-S=7
Search
Decay
Model
Symmetries
Publisher: Amer Physical Soc
Abstract: A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair (tt (b) over barH) is reported. The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW*, tau tau, and ZZ* are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeVand a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the (tt (b) over barH) production cross section is sot (tt (b) over barH) = 790(-210)(+230) fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507(-50)(+35) fb. The combination of this result with other tt (b) over barH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to b (b) over bar, gamma gamma and ZZ* -> 4l, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the tt (b) over barH production mode.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/9607
ISSN: 2470-0010
2470-0029
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