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Angular distributions in $t{\bar t}H (H\rightarrow b\bar{b})$ reconstructed events at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-02 v2

Abstract

The associated production of a Higgs boson and a top-quark pair, ttˉHt{\bar t} H, in proton-proton collisions is addressed in this paper for a center of mass energy of 13TeV at the LHC. Dileptonic final states of ttˉHt{\bar t}H events with two oppositely charged leptons and four jets from the decays tbW+b+νt\rightarrow bW^+ \rightarrow b \ell^+\nu_\ell, tˉbˉWbˉνˉ\bar{t}\rightarrow \bar{b}W^- \rightarrow \bar{b} \ell^-\bar{\nu}_\ell and hbbˉh\rightarrow b\bar{b}, are used. Signal events, generated with MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, are fully reconstructed by applying a kinematic fit. New angular distributions of the decay products as well as angular asymmetries are explored in order to improve discrimination of ttˉHt{\bar t} H signal events over the dominant irreducible background contribution, ttˉbbˉt{\bar t}b{\bar b}. Even after the full kinematic fit reconstruction of the events, the proposed angular distributions and asymmetries are still quite different in the ttˉHt\bar{t}H signal and the dominant background (ttˉbbˉt\bar{t}b\bar{b}).

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@article{arxiv.1503.07787,
  title  = {Angular distributions in $t{\bar t}H (H\rightarrow b\bar{b})$ reconstructed events at the LHC},
  author = {S. P. Amor dos Santos and J. P. Araque and R. Cantrill and N. F. Castro and M. C. N. Fiolhais and R. Frederix and R. Gonçalo and R. Martins and R. Santos and J. Silva and A. Onofre and H. Peixoto and A. Reigoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07787},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 14 figures