Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into bb¯bb¯ in pppp collisions at s√=8TeV8TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into bb¯bb¯ in pppp collisions at s√=8TeV8TeV with the ATLAS detector
Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M. & AbouZeid, O. S. et al. (2015)
The European Physical Journal C, 75 art. 349. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3543-1
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- ATLAS Collaboration
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- Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abreu, R.; Zwalinski, L.
- Abstract
- A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, t ¯tH, is presented. The analysis uses 20.3 fb−1 √ of pp collision data at s = 8 TeV, collected with theATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2012. The search is designed for the H → b¯b decay mode and uses events containing one or two electrons or muons. In order to improve the sensitivity of the search, events are categorised according to their jet and b-tagged jet multiplicities. A neural network is used to discriminate between signal and background events, the latter being dominated by t ¯t+jets production. In the single-lepton channel, variables calculated using a matrix element method are included as inputs to the neural network to improve discrimination of the irreducible t ¯t+b¯b background. No significant excess of events above the background expectation is found and an observed (expected) limit of 3.4 (2.2) times the StandardModel cross section is obtained at 95% confidence level. The ratio of the measured t ¯tH signal cross section to the StandardModel expectation is found to be μ = 1.5±1.1 assuming a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV .
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Project
- info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/246806/EU/European Particle physics Latin American NETwork/EPLANET
- Organization
- Fakultät für Physik
- ISSN
- 1434-6052
- Language
- English