Search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair at root s=13 TeV
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Abstract
A search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark (t) and the Higgs boson (H) is presented. The search is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV. Events containing exactly one lepton (muon or electron) and at least three jets, among which at least two are identified as originating from the hadronization of a bottom quark, are analyzed. A set of deep neural networks is used for kinematic event reconstruction, while boosted decision trees distinguish the signal from the background events. No significant excess over the background predictions is observed, and upper limits on the signal production cross sections are extracted. These limits are interpreted in terms of top quark decay branching fractions (B) to the Higgs boson and an up (u) or a charm quark (c). Assuming one nonvanishing extra coupling at a time, the observed (expected) upper limits at 95% confidence level are B(t → Hu) < 0.079 (0.11)% and B(t → Hc) < 0.094 (0.086)%.
Date Issued
2022-02-21
Date Acceptance
2022-02-04
Citation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2022, 2022 (2)
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer
Journal / Book Title
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume
2022
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
Open Access, Copyright CERN,
for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration.
for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration.
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Commission of the European Communities
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)
Commission of the European Communities
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
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Commission of the European Communities
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Grant Number
511382
PP/D002842/1
031688
MJF/fp12r033
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
B Physics
Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Higgs Physics
Top Physics
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MODELS
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 169
Date Publish Online
2022-02-21