The observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark-antiquark pair is reported, based on a combined analysis of proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of sqrt[s]=7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1, 19.7, and 35.9  fb^-1, respectively. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The results of statistically independent searches for Higgs bosons produced in conjunction with a top quark-antiquark pair and decaying to pairs of W bosons, Z bosons, photons, τ leptons, or bottom quark jets are combined to maximize sensitivity. An excess of events is observed, with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations, over the expectation from the background-only hypothesis. The corresponding expected significance from the standard model for a Higgs boson mass of 125.09 GeV is 4.2 standard deviations. The combined best fit signal strength normalized to the standard model prediction is 1.26_-0.26^+0.31.

Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2018). Observation of tt[over ¯]H Production. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 120(23), 231801 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.231801].

Observation of tt[over ¯]H Production

Benaglia, A;Beschi, A;Brianza, L;Brivio, F;Ciriolo, V;Dinardo, M E;Fiorendi, S;Ghezzi, A;Govoni, P;Malberti, M;Massironi, A;Moroni, L;Paganoni, M;Ragazzi, S;Tabarelli de Fatis, T;Zuolo, D;Gerosa, R;Lucchini, M T;De Guio, F;
2018

Abstract

The observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark-antiquark pair is reported, based on a combined analysis of proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of sqrt[s]=7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1, 19.7, and 35.9  fb^-1, respectively. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The results of statistically independent searches for Higgs bosons produced in conjunction with a top quark-antiquark pair and decaying to pairs of W bosons, Z bosons, photons, τ leptons, or bottom quark jets are combined to maximize sensitivity. An excess of events is observed, with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations, over the expectation from the background-only hypothesis. The corresponding expected significance from the standard model for a Higgs boson mass of 125.09 GeV is 4.2 standard deviations. The combined best fit signal strength normalized to the standard model prediction is 1.26_-0.26^+0.31.
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Physics - CERN - LHC - CMS - Higgs Boson
English
2018
120
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231801
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Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2018). Observation of tt[over ¯]H Production. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 120(23), 231801 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.231801].
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