ATLAS Collaboration (Including: Beckingham, M., Farrington, Sinead, Harrison, P. F., Janus, M., Jeske, C., Jones, G. (Graham), Martin, T. A., Murray, W. and Pianori, E.). (2015) Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 749 . pp. 519-541. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.079 ISSN 0370-2693.

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A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair is performed in multilepton final states using 20.3 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at View the MathML source at the Large Hadron Collider. Five final states, targeting the decays H→WW⁎, ττ , and ZZ⁎, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson: two same-charge light leptons (e or μ) without a hadronically decaying τ lepton; three light leptons; two same-charge light leptons with a hadronically decaying τ lepton; four light leptons; and one light lepton and two hadronically decaying τ leptons. No significant excess of events is observed above the background expectation. The best fit for the View the MathML source production cross section, assuming a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, is View the MathML source times the SM expectation, and the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 4.7 (2.4) times the SM rate. The p-value for compatibility with the background-only hypothesis is 1.8σ; the expectation in the presence of a Standard Model signal is 0.9σ.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Higgs bosons, Standard model (Nuclear physics), Symmetry (Physics)
Journal or Publication Title:	Physics Letters B
Publisher:	Elsevier Science BV
ISSN:	0370-2693
Official Date:	7 October 2015
Dates:	Date Event 7 October 2015 Published 5 August 2015 Available 31 July 2015 Accepted 19 June 2015 Submitted
Volume:	749
Page Range:	pp. 519-541
DOI:	10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.079
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	24 May 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	24 May 2016
Funder:	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Australian Research Council (ARC), Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung [Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture], Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria) (FWF), Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası, Belarus.‏ ‎Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet po nauke i tekhnologii︠a︡m‏, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Research Council Canada (NRCC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Chile. Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Zhongguo ke xue yuan [Chinese Academy of Sciences] (CAS), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], Fondo Colombiano de Investigaciones Científicas y Proyectos Especiales Francisco José de Caldas (COLCIENCIAS), VSC CR (Czech Republic), Czech Republic. Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy [Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport], Czech Republic.‏ ‎Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu‏ [Ministery of Industry and Trade] (MPO), Lundbeck Foundation, Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [Danish National Research Foundation], Statens naturvidenskabelige forskningsråd (Denmark) [Natural Science Research Council], European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET), European Research Council (ERC), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), Sakʻartʻvelos mecʻnierebatʻa erovnuli akademia [Georgian National Academy of Sciences] (GNAS), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvHS), Greece. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva Stiftung, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Israeli Centers of Research Excellence (I-CORE), Benoziyo Center (Israel), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Japan. Monbu Kagakushō [Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] (MK), Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technique (Morocco), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), Norges forskningsråd [Norwegian Research Council], BRF (Norway), Poland. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego [Ministry of Science and Higher Education] (MNiSW), Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Portugal.‏ Ministério da Ciência, da Inovação e do Ensino Superior, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Romania.‏ Ministerul Educației Naționale‏ (MNE), Institutul de Fizică Atomică (IFA), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ [Ministry of Education], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Serbia. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Serbia. Ministarstvo prosvete i sporta‏ [Ministry of Education] (MSTD), Slovenia. Ministerstvo Spravodlivosti Slovenskej Republiky, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia.‏ Ministrstvo za šolstvo, znanost in šport‏, South Africa. Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation (South Africa) (NRF), Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO), Sweden. Vetenskapsrådet [Research Council], Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Sweden), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Bern (Switzerland : Canton), Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK), Geneva (Switzerland : Canton), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], National Strategic Research Framework (Greece), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Royal Society (Great Britain), Leverhulme Trust (LT), United States. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF)

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