Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
A search is performed for Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in the decays of top quarks. The search is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹ at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Even...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw |
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| description | A search is performed for Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in the decays of top quarks. The search is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹ at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events in which a top quark pair is produced with one top quark decaying into a charm or up quark and a Higgs boson (H), and the other top quark decaying into a bottom quark and a W boson are selected. The Higgs boson in these events is assumed to subsequently decay into either dibosons or difermions. No significant excess is observed above the expected standard model background, and an upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching fraction ℬ(t → Hc) of 0.40% and ℬ(t → Hu) of 0.55%, where the expected upper limits are 0.43% and 0.40%, respectively. These results correspond to upper limits on the square of the flavor-changing Higgs boson Yukawa couplings |λtc[superscript H]|²< 6.9 × 10⁻³ and |λtuH|²< 9.8 × 10⁻³. Keywords: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics; Higgs physics |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1185942022-10-02T01:29:00Z Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw A search is performed for Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in the decays of top quarks. The search is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹ at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events in which a top quark pair is produced with one top quark decaying into a charm or up quark and a Higgs boson (H), and the other top quark decaying into a bottom quark and a W boson are selected. The Higgs boson in these events is assumed to subsequently decay into either dibosons or difermions. No significant excess is observed above the expected standard model background, and an upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching fraction ℬ(t → Hc) of 0.40% and ℬ(t → Hu) of 0.55%, where the expected upper limits are 0.43% and 0.40%, respectively. These results correspond to upper limits on the square of the flavor-changing Higgs boson Yukawa couplings |λtc[superscript H]|²< 6.9 × 10⁻³ and |λtuH|²< 9.8 × 10⁻³. Keywords: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Top physics; Higgs physics 2018-10-17T14:44:11Z 2018-10-17T14:44:11Z 2017-07 2017-06 2018-09-26T13:53:58Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118594 Khachatryan, V. et al. “Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2017, 2 (February 2017): 79 © 2017 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1136-6900 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5854 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)079 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Nature Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Apyan, Aram Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hsu, Dylan George Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Andrew Michael Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title | Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full | Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_short | Search for Top Quark Decays via Higgs-Boson-Mediated Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV |
| title_sort | search for top quark decays via higgs boson mediated flavor changing neutral currents in pp collisions at √s 8 tev |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118594 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1136-6900 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5854 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 |
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