TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - Clark, Philip James
AU - Farrington, Sinead
AU - Faucci Giannelli, Michele
AU - Gao, Yanyan
AU - Hasib, Ahmed
AU - Leonidopoulos, Christos
AU - Martin, Victoria Jane
AU - Mijović, Liza
AU - Wynne, Benjamin
AU - Collaboration, Atlas
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, t¯tH, 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→b¯b
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 t¯t+jets production. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the ratio of the measured t¯tH signal cross-section to the standard model expectation is found to be μ=0.84+0.64−0.61. 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 t¯tH signal.
AB - A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, t¯tH, 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→b¯b
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 t¯t+jets production. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, the ratio of the measured t¯tH signal cross-section to the standard model expectation is found to be μ=0.84+0.64−0.61. 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 t¯tH signal.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016
M3 - Article
SN - 0556-2821
VL - D97
JO - Physical Review D, particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
JF - Physical Review D, particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
IS - 7
M1 - 072016
ER -