Search for Higgs boson production in association with top quarks in multilepton final states at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}

Collaboration
2017
18 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIG-17-004
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Abstract:
A search for the production for a standard model Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair (ttH\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{H}) is presented. The analysis is based on pp collision data collected by the CMS experiment at a center of mass energy of s=13 TeV\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV} in 2016, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. We target final states where the Higgs boson decays to WW\mathrm{WW}^{*}, ZZ\mathrm{ZZ}^{*} or ττ\tau\tau, and at least one of the top quarks decays leptonically, by selecting events with two leptons of the same charge, three leptons or at least four leptons, and b-jets. We obtain a best fit ttH\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{H} yield of 1.5 ± 0.51.5~\pm~0.5 times the standard model prediction, with an observed (expected) significance of 3.3σ3.3\sigma (2.5σ2.5\sigma), by the combination of these results with those obtained from the 2015 dataset.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • top: pair production
  • Higgs particle: decay modes
  • tau: pair production
  • W: pair production
  • Z0: pair production
  • top: decay
  • p p: scattering