CP properties of Higgs boson interactions with top quarks in the t t ¯ H and tH processes using H →γγ with the ATLAS detector

0534142 - FZÚ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2948 authors
CP properties of Higgs boson interactions with top quarks in the t t ¯ H and tH processes using H →γγ with the ATLAS detector.
Physical Review Letters. Roč. 125, č. 6 (2020), s. 1-21, č. článku 061802. ISSN 0031-9007. E-ISSN 1079-7114
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN * LHC * scattering * interaction * colliding beams
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 9.161, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access

A study of the charge conjugation and parity (CP) properties of the interaction between the Higgs boson and top quarks is presented. Higgs bosons are identified via the diphoton decay channel (H→γγ), and their production in association with a top quark pair (tt¯H) or single top quark (tH) is studied. The analysis uses 139  fb-1 of proton–proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13  TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Assuming a CP-even coupling, the tt¯H process is observed with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The measured cross section times H→γγ branching ratio is 1.64-0.36+0.38(stat)-0.14+0.17(sys)  fb, and the measured rate for tt¯H is 1.43-0.31+0.33(stat)-0.15+0.21(sys) times the Standard Model expectation. The tH production process is not observed and an upper limit on its rate of 12 times the Standard Model expectation is set.

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