Title
Search for Heavy Higgs Bosons A /H Decaying to a Top Quark Pair in pp Collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Date Issued
09 November 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaboud M.
Aad G.
Abbott B.
Abdinov O.
Abeloos B.
Abidi S.H.
Abouzeid O.S.
Abraham N.L.
Abramowicz H.
Abreu H.
Abreu R.
Abulaiti Y.
Acharya B.S.
Adachi S.
Adamczyk L.
Adelman J.
Adersberger M.
Adye T.
Affolder A.A.
Agatonovic-Jovin T.
Agheorghiesei C.
Aguilar-Saavedra J.A.
Ahlen S.P.
Ahmadov F.
Aielli G.
Akatsuka S.
Akerstedt H.
Åkesson T.P.A.
Akilli E.
Akimov A.V.
Alberghi G.L.
Albert J.
Albicocco P.
Alconada Verzini M.J.
Alderweireldt S.C.
Aleksa M.
Aleksandrov I.N.
Alexa C.
Alexander G.
Alexopoulos T.
Alhroob M.
Ali B.
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.
Alshehri A.A.
Alstaty M.I.
Alvarez Gonzalez B.
Álvarez Piqueras D.
Alviggi M.G.
Amadio B.T.
Amaral Coutinho Y.
Amelung C.
Amidei D.
Amor Dos Santos S.P.
Amoroso S.
Amundsen G.
Anastopoulos C.
Ancu L.S.
Andari N.
Andeen T.
Anders C.F.
Anders J.K.
Anderson K.J.
Andreazza A.
Andrei V.
Angelidakis S.
Angelozzi I.
Angerami A.
Anisenkov A.V.
Anjos N.
Annovi A.
Antel C.
Antonelli M.
Antonov A.
Antrim D.J.
Anulli F.
Aoki M.
Aperio Bella L.
Arabidze G.
Arai Y.
Araque J.P.
Araujo Ferraz V.
Arce A.T.H.
Ardell R.E.
Arduh F.A.
Arguin J.F.
Argyropoulos S.
Arik M.
Armbruster A.J.
Armitage L.J.
Arnaez O.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
A search for heavy pseudoscalar (A) and scalar (H) Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark pair (tt) has been performed with 20.3 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy s=8 TeV. Interference effects between the signal process and standard model tt production, which are expected to distort the signal shape from a single peak to a peak-dip structure, are taken into account. No significant deviation from the standard model prediction is observed in the tt invariant mass spectrum in final states with an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets. The results are interpreted within the context of a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Exclusion limits on the signal strength are derived as a function of the mass mA/H and the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs fields, tanβ, for mA/H>500 GeV.
Volume
119
Issue
19
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85034070285
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref.
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