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The study of the Higgs boson's properties is a cornerstone of the LHC and future collider programs. In this paper, we examine the potential to directly probe the Higgs-top interaction strength and CP-structure in the $t\bar t h$ channel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Dorival Gonçalves , Jeong Han Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Yongcheng Wu

We analyze the prospects of probing the $CP$-odd $i \tilde \kappa \bar t \gamma^5 t h$ interaction at the LHC and its projected upgrades, the high-luminosity and high-energy LHC, directly using associated on-shell Higgs boson and top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Darius A. Faroughy , Jernej F. Kamenik , Nejc Košnik , Aleks Smolkovič

We present a search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark ($tHq$), using data samples collected by the CMS detector in $pp$ collisions at center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-06 Kenneth Bloom

In non-minimal Higgs sectors, coupling constants of the discovered Higgs boson can deviate from the predictions in the Standard Model by effects of additional scalar bosons. The pattern of the deviations in various Higgs boson couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Mariko Kikuchi

We use the associated production of top-quark pairs with a generic scalar boson at the LHC to explore the sensitivity of a large set of observables to the sign of the CP mixing angle, present in the coupling between the scalar boson and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Duarte Azevedo , Rodrigo Capucha , António Onofre , Rui Santos

Constraining the Higgs boson properties is a cornerstone of the LHC program. We study the potential to directly probe the Higgs-top CP-structure via the $t\bar{t}h$ channel at the LHC with the Higgs boson decaying to a bottom pair and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Dorival Goncalves , Kyoungchul Kong , Jeong Han Kim

The determination of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark to the Higgs boson is one of the most important measurements that a future e^+e^- linear collider could provide. For a Higgs boson of mass greater than 350 GeV, this coupling can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Juan Alcaraz , Ester Ruiz Morales

We present a comprehensive overview of the vector boson fusion production and the following decay of the Higgs boson to two bottom quarks (\(H\!\to\! b\bar{b}\)), which dominates the Higgs total width yet remains experimentally challenging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Fikriye C I Kaya , Ibrahim Mirza

The CP properties of the Higgs boson are studied in the vector-boson fusion production mode. The analysis exploits the decay mode of the Higgs boson into two $\tau$-leptons using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-12 ATLAS Collaboration

Current Higgs data show an ambiguity in the value of the Yukawa couplings to quarks and leptons. Not so much because of still large uncertainties in the measurements but as the result of several almost degenerate minima in the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Marco Farina , Christophe Grojean , Fabio Maltoni , Ennio Salvioni , Andrea Thamm

Differential cross sections are measured for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with vector bosons (W, Z) and decaying to a pair of b quarks. Measurements are performed within the framework of the simplified template…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-31 CMS Collaboration

The production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark is one of a few channels which are sensitive for not yet excluded anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson to fermions. Multivariate analysis tools are used for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 Simon Fink

A study of the charge conjugation and parity ($CP$) properties of the interaction between the Higgs boson and $\tau$-leptons is presented. The study is based on a measurement of $CP$-sensitive angular observables defined by the visible…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-10 ATLAS Collaboration

After the discovery of the 125 GeV scalar boson with gauge properties similar to the Standard Model Higgs, the search for beyond the SM interactions will focus on studying the discovered particles' coupling properties more precisely and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-12 Christoph Englert , Emanuele Re

CP violation in the Higgs couplings to fermions is an intriguing, but not yet extensively explored possibility. We use inclusive and differential LHC Higgs boson measurements to fit the CP structure of the Higgs Yukawa couplings. Starting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 Henning Bahl , Elina Fuchs , Sven Heinemeyer , Judith Katzy , Marco Menen , Krisztian Peters , Matthias Saimpert , Georg Weiglein

In the presence of CP violation, the Higgs-top coupling may have both scalar and pseudoscalar components, $\kappa_t$ and ${\tilde \kappa_t}$, which are bounded indirectly but only weakly by the present experimental constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 John Ellis , Dae Sung Hwang , Kazuki Sakurai , Michihisa Takeuchi

In this letter we explore beyond the Standard Model top-Higgs Yukawa couplings as a function of a CP-mixing parameter $\xi_t$ at the 14 TeV HL-LHC in the process $pp\to thj$. We observe that angular variables of the decay products of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-27 Riley Patrick , Andre Scaffidi , Pankaj Sharma

A search is presented for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark, based on data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, which corresponds to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-29 CMS Collaboration

Null results from searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tend to enforce the belief that new particles must be much heavier than the weak scale. We undertake a systematic study of the interplay between Higgs alignment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Ian Low , Nausheen R. Shah , Xiao-Ping Wang

The Higgs boson $H$ has the largest coupling to the top quark $t$ among the standard model (SM) fermions. This is one of the ideal places to investigate new physics beyond SM. In this work, we study the potential of determining Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Xiao-Gang He , Guan-Nan Li , Ya-Juan Zheng