Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; 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; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Y.  Afik; C. Agheorghiesei; J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra; S. P. Ahlen; F. Ahmadov; G. Aielli; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Simon Holm Stark; Geert-Jan Besjes; Milena Bajic; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Flavia de Almeida Dias

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, 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, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Y. Afik, C. AgheorghieseiJ. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. P. Ahlen, F. Ahmadov, G. Aielli, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Simon Holm Stark, Geert-Jan Besjes, Milena Bajic, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Flavia de Almeida Dias

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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<1.2 in the absence of a ttH signal.

Original language	English
Article number	072016
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	97
Issue number	7
Number of pages	44
ISSN	2470-0010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., Abouzeid, O. S. A., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., Afik, Y., ... de Almeida Dias, F. (2018). Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 97(7), Article 072016. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahlen, SP, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK, Stark, SH, Besjes, G-J, Bajic, M, Thiele, FAJ & de Almeida Dias, F 2018, 'Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physical Review D, vol. 97, no. 7, 072016. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072016

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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b(b)overbar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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