Else Lytken
Professor
CP Properties of Higgs Boson Interactions with Top Quarks in the t t ¯ H and tH Processes Using H →γγ with the ATLAS Detector
Author
Summary, in English
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. A CP-mixing angle greater (less) than 43 (-43)° is excluded at 95% confidence level. © 2020 CERN.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2020-08-05
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
125
Issue
6
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Dynamic mechanical analysis
- Branching ratio
- Charge conjugation
- Confidence levels
- Large Hadron Collider
- Production process
- Proton proton collisions
- Standard deviation
- The standard model
- Bosons
- article
- boson
- conjugation
- expectation
- hadron
- parity
- quark
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0031-9007