Rikkert Frederix
Senior lecturer
Enhancing the ttH signal through top-quark spin polarization effects at the LHC
Author
Editor
- M. Aguilar-Benítez
- J. Fuster
- S. Martí-García
- A. Santamaría
Summary, in English
We consider the impact of the tt spin correlations in the Higgs boson production in association with top quark pairs pp→ttH and in the corresponding backgrounds. We study the H→bb and H→γγ decay modes. We show that retaining the tt spin-correlation effects could significantly improve the LHC sensitivity to the ttH signal, particularly in the H→γγ channel.
Publishing year
2016-04-01
Language
English
Pages
721-726
Publication/Series
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Volume
273-275
Links
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Higgs boson
- LHC
- Polarization
- Spin correlations
- Top quark
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2405-6014