Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson and a top quark pair in multilepton (2 leptons, no hadronically-decaying $τ$ lepton candidates and 4 leptons) final states with the ATLAS detector.
Ana Elena Dumitriu
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Ana Elena Dumitriu
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The Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson to the top quark is a key parameter of the Standard Model. It can be constrained using the associated production process $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}H+X$. A search for this process using final states with multiple leptons, primarily targeting the decays $H\rightarrow WW^*$ and $H\rightarrow \tau \tau$, has been performed using the data set recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 at a center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The analysis presented here includes two of the four final states distinguished by the number and flavor of leptons: two same-charge light leptons (e or $\mu$) and no hadronically-decaying $\tau$ lepton candidates ($2\ell0\tau_{\textrm{had}}$) and four light leptons ($4\ell$), the remaining channels not covered being two same-charge light leptons and one hadronically-decaying $\tau$ lepton candidate ($2\ell1\tau_{\textrm{had}}$) and three light leptons ($3\ell$). The different background sources are also presented for each channel considered. The latest best-fit value for the ratio of observed versus Standard Model cross sections is then given as well as an upper limit on this parameter.
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The Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson to the top quark is a key parameter of the Standard Model. It can be constrained using the associated production process $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}H+X$. A search for this process using final states with multiple leptons, primarily targeting the decays $H\rightarrow WW^*$ and $H\rightarrow \tau \tau$, has been performed using the data set recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 at a center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The analysis presented here includes two of the four final states distinguished by the number and flavor of leptons: two same-charge light leptons (e or $\mu$) and no hadronically-decaying $\tau$ lepton candidates ($2\ell0\tau_{\textrm{had}}$) and four light leptons ($4\ell$), the remaining channels not covered being two same-charge light leptons and one hadronically-decaying $\tau$ lepton candidate ($2\ell1\tau_{\textrm{had}}$) and three light leptons ($3\ell$). The different background sources are also presented for each channel considered. The latest best-fit value for the ratio of observed versus Standard Model cross sections is then given as well as an upper limit on this parameter.
Key concepts: Lepton, Physics, Particle physics, Higgs boson, Standard Model (mathematical formulation), Yukawa potential, Top quark, Pair production