Collaboration, ATLAS;
(2015)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into bb¯ in pp collisions at √s = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector.
The European Physical Journal C
, 75
, Article 349. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3543-1.
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Abstract
A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair, tt¯H , is presented. The analysis uses 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s√=8TeV , collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2012. The search is designed for the H→bb¯ 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 tt¯ +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 tt¯+bb¯ background. No significant excess of events above the background expectation is found and an observed (expected) limit of 3.4 (2.2) times the Standard Model cross section is obtained at 95 % confidence level. The ratio of the measured tt¯H signal cross section to the Standard Model expectation is found to be μ=1.5±1.1 assuming a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV .
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into bb¯ in pp collisions at √s = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3543-1 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3543-1 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright information © CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3 |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1464139 |
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