Title
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into bb¯ produced in association with top quarks decaying hadronically in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Date Issued
01 May 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
The ATLAS collaboration
Aad G.
Abbott B.
Abdallah J.
Abdinov O.
Abeloos B.
Aben R.
Abolins M.
AbouZeid O.S.
Abraham N.L.
Abramowicz H.
Abreu H.
Abreu R.
Abulaiti Y.
Acharya B.S.
Adamczyk L.
Adams D.L.
Adelman J.
Adomeit S.
Adye T.
Affolder A.A.
Agatonovic-Jovin T.
Agricola J.
Aguilar-Saavedra J.A.
Ahlen S.P.
Ahmadov F.
Aielli G.
Akerstedt H.
Åkesson T.P.A.
Akimov A.V.
Alberghi G.L.
Albert J.
Albrand S.
Alconada Verzini M.J.
Aleksa M.
Aleksandrov I.N.
Alexa C.
Alexander G.
Alexopoulos T.
Alhroob M.
Aliev M.
Alimonti G.
Alison J.
Alkire S.P.
Allbrooke B.M.M.
Allen B.W.
Allport P.P.
Aloisio A.
Alonso A.
Alonso F.
Alpigiani C.
Alstaty M.
Alvarez Gonzalez B.
Álvarez Piqueras D.
Alviggi M.G.
Amadio B.T.
Amako K.
Amaral Coutinho Y.
Amelung C.
Amidei D.
Amor Dos Santos S.P.
Amorim A.
Amoroso S.
Amundsen G.
Anastopoulos C.
Ancu L.S.
Andari N.
Andeen T.
Anders C.F.
Anders G.
Anders J.K.
Anderson K.J.
Andreazza A.
Andrei V.
Angelidakis S.
Angelozzi I.
Anger P.
Angerami A.
Anghinolfi F.
Anisenkov A.V.
Anjos N.
Annovi A.
Antonelli M.
Antonov A.
Antos J.
Anulli F.
Aoki M.
Aperio Bella L.
Arabidze G.
Aracena I.
Arai Y.
Araque J.P.
Arce A.T.H.
Arduh F.A.
Arguin J.F.
Argyropoulos S.
Arik M.
Armbruster A.J.
Armitage L.J.
Arnaez O.
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
A search for Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top quarks (tt¯ H) is performed, where the Higgs boson decays to bb¯, and both top quarks decay hadronically. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search selects events with at least six energetic jets and uses a boosted decision tree algorithm to discriminate between signal and Standard Model background. The dominant multijet background is estimated using a dedicated data-driven technique. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an upper limit of 6.4 (5.4) times the Standard Model cross section is observed (expected) at 95% confidence level. The best-fit value for the signal strength is μ = 1.6 ± 2.6 times the Standard Model expectation for mH = 125 GeV. Combining all tt¯ H searches carried out by ATLAS at √s = 8 and 7 TeV, an observed (expected) upper limit of 3.1 (1.4) times the Standard Model expectation is obtained at 95% confidence level, with a signal strength μ = 1.7 ± 0.8.
Volume
2016
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84973664656
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
1126-6708
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1119200, 1410972, 1506173 NSF
Seventh Framework Programme 246806 FP7
Science and Technology Facilities Council GRIDPP, PP/E000444/1, ST/J004804/1, ST/J005533/1, ST/K001329/1, ST/L000997/1, ST/L003449/1, ST/L006162/1, ST/M000753/1, ST/N000277/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/N000331/1, ST/N000463/1 STFC
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 26247038 JSPS
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 156083, 163402 SNF
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