Search for ttH\mathrm{t\overline{t}H} production in the Hbb\mathrm{H}\rightarrow \mathrm{b\overline{b}} decay channel with s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV} pp collisions at the CMS experiment

Collaboration
2016
31 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIG-16-004
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Abstract:
First results of the search for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top quark-antiquark pair (ttH\mathrm{t\overline{t}H}) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV} are presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb12.7~\mathrm{fb}^{-1} recorded with the CMS experiment in 2015. Candidate ttH\mathrm{t\overline{t}H} events are selected with criteria enhancing the lepton+jets or dileptonic decay channels of the tt\mathrm{t\overline{t}} system and the decay of the Higgs boson into a bottom quark-antiquark pair (Hbb\mathrm{H}\rightarrow \mathrm{b\overline{b}}). In order to increase the sensitivity of the search, selected events are split into several categories with different expected signal and background rates. In each category signal and background events are separated using a multivariate approach that combines a physics-motivated method (matrix element method, MEM) with methods from machine learning (boosted decision trees, BDTs). The result is presented in terms of the ttH\mathrm{t\overline{t}H} signal strength modifier μ\mu, the ratio of the observed ttH\mathrm{t\overline{t}H} production cross section relative to the value expected for a 125 GeV standard model Higgs boson. A combined fit of multivariate discriminant templates in all categories to data results in an observed (expected) upper limit of μ<2.6 (3.6)\mu < 2.6~(3.6) at the 95%95\% confidence level.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: colliding beams
  • p p: scattering
  • top: pair production
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • jet: bottom
  • bottom: particle identification
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • final state: ((n)jet lepton)
  • final state: ((n)jet dilepton)