[PDF] Top 20 Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at the LHC

... Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucl´eaire et de Physique des Partic- ules / CNRS, and ... See full document

... treat in any kinematic trans- formation aiming for phase-space alignment during the integration ...process. In the definition of the signal and background hypothesis the LO ... See full document

... a search for t¯tH production with 36.1 fb −1 of pp collision data at p ffiffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV is ...presented. The analysis targets Higgs-boson decays to b-quarks, but all ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC ...thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, ... See full document

... are produced using various Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, with the CMS detector response modeled with G EANT 4 ...[17]. The Higgs boson signal samples are ... See full document

... for the signal and for all background contributions derived using MC simu- ...varying the renormalization and factorization scales, PDF param- eterization, and underlying-event model as described ... See full document

... on the flavour composition of the Z + jet and W + jet background is estimated by varying the fraction of Z + c-jets and W + c-jets by 30% as derived from the fit described in Section ... See full document

... experiments at the CERN LHC have made clear observations of a particle compatible with the standard model (SM) Higgs boson ...While the observation ... See full document

... of the standard model (MSSM) requires the introduc- tion of two Higgs doublets in order that the superpotential can contain appropriate terms for giving masses to both up ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS ... See full document

... a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012 [1–3] opened a new field for exploration in particle ...physics. The Higgs boson was discovered through its ... See full document

... of the SM prediction for the τ Yukawa coupling. The process with the largest cross section to produce a SM Higgs boson at the LHC is gluon fusion gg → ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS ... See full document

... assign the observed excess of events in this region all to Wbb, leading to a scale factor of 2 for this background, while the estimate of single- top production is taken from the ...on ... See full document

... data in control regions (CRs) defined by criteria similar to those used for the SR, but with some requirements loosened or reversed to obtain signal-depleted samples enriched in the ... See full document

... A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is ...described. The analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from ... See full document

... a search for ttH production in the decay channel H → bb are presented in this paper based on pp collision data at √ s = 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector [29] ... See full document

... The standard model (SM) of electroweak interactions [1–3] relies on the existence of the Higgs boson, H, a scalar particle associated with the field ... See full document

... categories with different mass resolutions and signal-to- background ratios, to increase the sensitivity to a possible Higgs boson ...by the conver- sion status, η of the ... See full document

... events in which the associated W boson, and the W boson of the same charge from the tt system, each decay to a lepton and a neutrino, and the remaining W ... See full document