Search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and Higgs Boson in final states with two photons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
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Journal Article
Abstract
Proton-proton interactions resulting in final states with two photons are studied in a search for the signature of flavor-changing neutral current interactions of top quarks (t) and Higgs bosons (H). The analysis is based on data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb^{-1}. No significant excess above the background prediction is observed. Upper limits on the branching fractions (B) of the top quark decaying to a Higgs boson and an up (u) or charm (c) quark are derived through a binned fit to the diphoton invariant mass spectrum. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limits are found to be 0.019% (0.031%) for B(t→Hu) and 0.073% (0.051%) for B(t→Hc). These are the strictest upper limits yet determined.
Date Issued
2022-07-15
Date Acceptance
2022-06-13
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2022, 129 (3), pp.1-20
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Start Page
1
End Page
20
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
129
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2022 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35905365
Subjects
CMS Collaboration
01 Mathematical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
09 Engineering
General Physics
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2022-07-13