Search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks using a matrix element method

A search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks is presented. Events with hadronic jets and one or two oppositely charged leptons are selected from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb -1 collected by...

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Veröffentlicht in:The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2015, Vol.75 (6), p.251-28, Article 251
Hauptverfasser: Ghete, V. M., Van Haevermaet, H., Seva, T., Wang, J., Strobbe, N., Pin, A., Fonseca De Souza, S., Sultanov, G., Mao, Y., Cabrera, A., Hamel de Monchenault, G., Chasserat, J., Viret, S., Bontenackels, M., Weber, H., Ata, M., Güth, A., Papacz, P., Lipka, K., Ribeiro Cipriano, P. M., Lapsien, T., Marconi, D., Böser, C., Hartmann, F., Strologas, J., Makovec, A., Raics, P., Swain, S. K., Mittal, M., Dutta, D., Cristella, L., Sharma, A., Di Guida, S., Donato, S., Grippo, M. T., Savoy-Navarro, A., Tonelli, G., Margaroli, F., Rovelli, C., Covarelli, R., Sacchi, R., Casarsa, M., Kropivnitskaya, A., Kim, T. J., Park, I. C., Salazar Ibarguen, H. A., Ahmad, M., Bargassa, P., Bunichev, V., Calderon, A., Graziano, A., Botta, C., Marini, A. C., Pandolfi, F., Lu, Y. J., Yu, S. S., Ozdemir, K., Tali, B., Surat, U. E., Yetkin, T., Clement, E., Bell, K. W., Brown, R. M., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C. H., Williams, T., Iles, G., Lyons, L., Nash, J., Nikitenko, A., Vazquez Acosta, M., Teodorescu, L., Dhingra, N., Laird, E., Mao, Z., Ignatenko, M., Kennedy, E., Long, O. R., Geffert, P., Vlimant, J. R., Wilkinson, R., Freeman, J., Vidal, R., Di Giovanni, G. P., Betts, R. R., Sekaric, J., Skhirtladze, N., Belloni, A., Kao, S. C., Turkewitz, J., Avdeeva, E., Hahn, K. A., Ruchti, R., Redjimi, R., de Barbaro, P., Korjenevski, S., Greene, S., Gurrola, A., Lamichhane, P., Cepeda, M.
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Ahmad, M.
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de Barbaro, P.
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description A search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks is presented. Events with hadronic jets and one or two oppositely charged leptons are selected from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb -1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in p p collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV . In order to separate the signal from the larger t t ¯  + jets background, this analysis uses a matrix element method that assigns a probability density value to each reconstructed event under signal or background hypotheses. The ratio between the two values is used in a maximum likelihood fit to extract the signal yield. The results are presented in terms of the measured signal strength modifier, μ , relative to the standard model prediction for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV . The observed (expected) exclusion limit at a 95 % confidence level is μ < 4.2 (3.3), corresponding to a best fit value μ ^ = 1 . 2 - 1.5 + 1.6 .
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subjects Analysis
Astronomy
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Collisions (Nuclear physics)
Confidence intervals
Decay
Elementary Particles
Hadrons
Heavy Ions
Higgs bosons
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Jets
Mathematical models
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Methods
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
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Quantum Field Theory
Quarks
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String Theory
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title Search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks using a matrix element method
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