Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.079

Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration

Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
CERN
Stockholm University
The Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Liverpool
University of Belgrade
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Université Grenoble Alpes
Instituto de Física La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of Birmingham
University of Naples Federico II
University of Copenhagen
Queen Mary University of London

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A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair is performed in multilepton final states using 20.3 fb⁻¹ of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at s=8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Five final states, targeting the decays H→WW^⁎, ττ, and ZZ^⁎, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson: two same-charge light leptons (e or μ) without a hadronically decaying τ lepton; three light leptons; two same-charge light leptons with a hadronically decaying τ lepton; four light leptons; and one light lepton and two hadronically decaying τ leptons. No significant excess of events is observed above the background expectation. The best fit for the tt¯H production cross section, assuming a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, is 2.1_−1.2 ^+1.4 times the SM expectation, and the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 4.7 (2.4) times the SM rate. The p-value for compatibility with the background-only hypothesis is 1.8σ; the expectation in the presence of a Standard Model signal is 0.9σ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	519-541
Number of pages	23
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.079
State	Published - Oct 7 2015

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Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

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