Measurement of Higgs boson decay into b-quarks in associated production with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Authors
Aad, G 
Abbott, B 
Abbott, DC 
Abed Abud, A 
Abeling, K 

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Abstract

The associated production of a Higgs boson and a top-quark pair is measured in events characterised by the presence of one or two electrons or muons. The Higgs boson decay into a b-quark pair is used. The analysed data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1, were collected in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV. The measured signal strength, defined as the ratio of the measured signal yield to that predicted by the Standard Model, is 0.35−0.34+0.36. This result is compatible with the Standard Model prediction and corresponds to an observed (expected) significance of 1.0 (2.7) standard deviations. The signal strength is also measured differentially in bins of the Higgs boson transverse momentum in the simplified template cross-section framework, including a bin for specially selected boosted Higgs bosons with transverse momentum above 300 GeV.

Publication Date
2022
Online Publication Date
2022-06-17
Acceptance Date
2022-05-16
Keywords
Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal ISSN
1029-8479
1029-8479
Volume Title
2022
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC