Search for ttH production in multilepton final states at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

Collaboration
2016
15 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIG-15-008
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Abstract:
A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark pair is presented. Data collected by the CMS experiment in pp\mathrm{pp} collisions at a center of mass energy of s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV} and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3~fb1^{-1} are used. The analysis targets the WW\mathrm{WW}^{*}, ZZ\mathrm{ZZ}^{*} and ττ\tau\tau decay channels of the Higgs boson by selecting final states with two same-sign leptons or more than three leptons, produced in association with b jets. The signal strength is measured to be 0.61.1+1.40.6^{+1.4}_{-1.1} times the standard model expectation. The observed 95\% confidence level upper limit on the ttH\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{H} production cross section is 3.3 times the standard model expectation, compared to the 2.6 expected in absence of a signal.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • top: pair production
  • jet: bottom
  • bottom: particle identification
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • Higgs particle: decay modes
  • vector boson: pair production
  • tau: pair production