Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, A. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, DK Abhayasinghe, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, A. Adiguzel, T. Adye, A. A. AffolderY. Afik, C. Agheorghiesei, Milena Bajic, Geert-Jan Besjes, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Mogens Dam, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, James William Monk, Troels Christian Petersen, Simon Holm Stark, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Stefania Xella, Graig Wiglesworth

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Abstract

The observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair (tt¯H), based on the analysis of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, is presented. Using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 79.8 fb−1, and considering Higgs boson decays into bb¯, WW, τ+τ, γγ, and ZZ, the observed significance is 5.8 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 4.9 standard deviations. Combined with the tt¯H searches using a dataset corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb−1 at 7 TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at 8 TeV, the observed (expected) significance is 6.3 (5.1) standard deviations. Assuming Standard Model branching fractions, the total tt¯H production cross section at 13 TeV is measured to be 670 ± 90 (stat.) −100 +110 (syst.) fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysics Letters B
Vol/bind784
Sider (fra-til)173-191
Antal sider19
ISSN0370-2693
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 10 sep. 2018

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