Measurement of the Higgs boson production rate in association with top quarks in final states with electrons, muons, and hadronically decaying tau leptons at s√=13TeV
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Abstract
The rate for Higgs (H) bosons production in association with either one (tH) or two (tt¯H) top quarks is measured in final states containing multiple electrons, muons, or tau leptons decaying to hadrons and a neutrino, using proton–proton collisions recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV by the CMS experiment. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137fb−1. The analysis is aimed at events that contain H→WW, H→ττ, or H→ZZ decays and each of the top quark(s) decays either to lepton+jets or all-jet channels. Sensitivity to signal is maximized by including ten signatures in the analysis, depending on the lepton multiplicity. The separation among tH, tt¯H, and the backgrounds is enhanced through machine-learning techniques and matrix-element methods. The measured production rates for the tt¯H and tH signals correspond to 0.92±0.19(stat)+0.17−0.13(syst) and 5.7±2.7(stat)±3.0(syst) of their respective standard model (SM) expectations. The corresponding observed (expected) significance amounts to 4.7 (5.2) standard deviations for tt¯H, and to 1.4 (0.3) for tH production. Assuming that the Higgs boson coupling to the tau lepton is equal in strength to its expectation in the SM, the coupling yt of the Higgs boson to the top quark divided by its SM expectation, κt=yt/ySMt, is constrained to be within −0.9<κt<−0.7 or 0.7<κt<1.1, at 95% confidence level. This result is the most sensitive measurement of the tt¯H production rate to date.
Date Issued
2021-04
Date Acceptance
2021-03-01
Citation
The European Physical Journal C, 2021, 81 (4), pp.1-51
ISSN
1434-6044
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Start Page
1
End Page
51
Journal / Book Title
The European Physical Journal C
Volume
81
Issue
4
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-021-09014-x
Subjects
hep-ex
hep-ex
Nuclear & Particles Physics
0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
0206 Quantum Physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
378
Date Publish Online
2021-04-30