Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.035

Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University

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The observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair (tt¯H), based on the analysis of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, is presented. Using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 79.8 fb⁻¹, and considering Higgs boson decays into bb¯, WW^⁎, τ⁺τ⁻, γγ, and ZZ^⁎, the observed significance is 5.8 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 4.9 standard deviations. Combined with the tt¯H searches using a dataset corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb⁻¹ at 7 TeV and 20.3 fb⁻¹ at 8 TeV, the observed (expected) significance is 6.3 (5.1) standard deviations. Assuming Standard Model branching fractions, the total tt¯H production cross section at 13 TeV is measured to be 670 ± 90 (stat.) ₋₁₀₀ ⁺¹¹⁰ (syst.) fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	173-191
Number of pages	19
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	784
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.035
State	Published - 10 Sep 2018

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