Search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson in events with a pair of τ-leptons in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

0577103 - FZÚ 2024 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Jačka, Petr - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Latoňová, Věra - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2904 authors
Search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson in events with a pair of τ-leptons in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2023, č. 6 (2023), č. článku 155. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ III - 90240
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : Flavour Changing Neutral Currents * hadron-hadron scattering * Higgs physics * top physics
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

A search for flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) tqH interactions involving a top quark, another up-type quark (q = u, c), and a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson decaying into a τ-lepton pair (H → τ++τ−−) is presented. The search is based on a dataset of pp collisions at ss ​ = 13 TeV that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1−1 recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Two processes are considered: single top quark FCNC production in association with a Higgs boson (pp → tH), and top quark pair production in which one of top quarks decays into Wb and the other decays into qH through the FCNC interactions. The search selects events with two hadronically decaying τ-lepton candidates (τhadhad​) or at least one τhadhad​ with an additional lepton (e, μ), as well as multiple jets. Event kinematics is used to separate signal from the background through a multivariate discriminant.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346353