Abstract
A search is performed for Higgs bosons produced in association with top quarks using the diphoton decay mode of the Higgs boson. Selection requirements are optimized separately for leptonic and fully hadronic final states from the top quark decays. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess over the background prediction is observed and upper limits are set on the tt¯H production cross section. The observed exclusion upper limit at 95% confidence level is 6.7 times the predicted Standard Model cross section value. In addition, limits are set on the strength of the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson, taking into account the dependence of the tt¯H and tH cross sections as well as the H→γγ branching fraction on the Yukawa coupling. Lower and upper limits at 95% confidence level are set at −1.3 and +8.0 times the Yukawa coupling strength in the Standard Model.
Highlights
After the decades-long search for the Higgs boson [1,2,3], a particle consistent with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [4,5]
Higgs boson production by ggF and vector-boson fusion (VBF) is simulated with Powheg-BOX [33,34] interfaced to Pythia 8.1 for showering and hadronization with CT10 parton distribution functions (PDF)
The total expected yield of Higgs boson production is 1.3 events compared to a continuum background of 4.6+−10..93 events
Summary
After the decades-long search for the Higgs boson [1,2,3], a particle consistent with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [4,5]. The value of Yt is indirectly tested by measurements sensitive to gluon fusion, ggF, the dominant Higgs boson production mechanism at the LHC, which receives large contributions from loop diagrams involving the top quark. The production of the Higgs boson in association with a single top quark, t H ,1 is sensitive to Yt. Three processes contribute to t H production [12,13,14,15,16]: t-channel (t Hqb) production, W t H pro-. In the SM, t H production is suppressed by the destructive interference between t-channel diagrams with Higgs bosons emitted from top quark and W boson lines, as for example shown in.
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