Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top quark decays t -> Hc and t -> Hu in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. 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, Sosuke Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, A. Adiguzel, T. Adye, A. A. AffolderY. Afik, C. Agheorghiesei, F. Ahmadov, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Geert-Jan Besjes, Milena Bajic, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, James William Monk, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Troels Christian Petersen, Simon Holm Stark, Graig Wiglesworth, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

Flavor-changing neutral currents are not present in the Standard Model at tree level and are suppressed in loop processes by the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix; the corresponding rates for top quark decay processes are experimentally unobservable. Extensions of the Standard Model can generate new flavor-changing neutral current processes, leading to signals which, if observed, would be unambiguous evidence of new interactions. A data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for top quarks decaying to up or charm quarks with the emission of a Higgs boson, with subsequent Higgs boson decay to final states with at least one electron or muon. No signal is observed and limits on the branching fractions B(t→Hc)<0.16% and B(t→Hu)<0.19% at 95% confidence level are obtained (with expected limits of 0.15% in both cases).

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer032002
TidsskriftPhysical Review D
Vol/bind98
Udgave nummer3
Antal sider25
ISSN2470-0010
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 aug. 2018

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