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

M Aaboud, G Aad, B. Abbott, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, S. H. Abidi, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Eric Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Charles Kalderon, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Ulf Mjörnmark, Ruth PöttgenTrine Poulsen, Oxana Smirnova, Oleksandr Viazlo, ATLAS Collaboration

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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
Original languageEnglish
Article number074015
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume97
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Apr 1

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Export Date: 24 May 2018

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  • Subatomic Physics

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