Search for H→γγ produced in association with top quarks and constraints on the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson using data taken at 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad; B Abbott; J Abdallah; S Abdel Khalek; O Abdinov; R Aben; B Abi; M Abolins; OS AbouZeid; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; R Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; J Adelman; S Adomeit; T Adye; T Agatonovic-Jovin; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Agustoni; SP Ahlen; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; H Akerstedt; TPA Åkesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; S Albrand; MJ Alconada Verzini; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; G Alimonti; L Alio; J Alison; BMM Allbrooke; LJ Allison; PP Allport; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; A Altheimer; B Alvarez Gonzalez; MG Alviggi; K Amako; Y Amaral Coutinho; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; A Amorim; S Amoroso; N Amram; G Amundsen; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; XS Anduaga; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; AV Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; M Aoki; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; JP Araque; ATH Arce; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; O Arnaez; V Arnal; H Arnold

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Search for H→γγ produced in association with top quarks and constraints on the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson using data taken at 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, T Agatonovic-Jovin Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.049

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Abstract

A search is performed for Higgs bosons produced in association with top quarks using the diphoton decay mode of the Higgs boson. Selection requirements are optimized separately for leptonic and fully hadronic final states from the top quark decays. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess over the background prediction is observed and upper limits are set on the tt¯H production cross section. The observed exclusion upper limit at 95% confidence level is 6.7 times the predicted Standard Model ..

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We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.