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Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment

Publication . ATLAS collaboration (2870 authors); Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio; Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia; Araque, Juan Pedro; Castro, Nuno Filipe; Conde Mui\~no, Patricia; Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose; Fiolhais, Miguel; Galhardo, Bruno; Gomes, Agostinho; Gon\c calo, Ricardo; Jorge, Pedro; Machado Miguens, Joana; Maio, Am\'elia; Maneira, Jos\'e; Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe; Onofre, Ant\'onio; Pedro, Rute; Santos, Helena; Saraiva, Jo\~ao; Silva, Jos\'e; Tavares Delgado, Ademar; Veloso, Filipe; Wolters, Helmut

A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH→ℓ+ℓ-cc¯ is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=13TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The H→cc¯ signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on σ(pp→ZH)×B(H→cc¯) is 2.7 (3.9-1.1+2.1) pb at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, while the standard model value is 26 fb.

2018-05-23Journal article

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Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector

Publication . ATLAS collaboration (2856 authors); Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio; Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia; Araque, Juan Pedro; Castro, Nuno Filipe; Conde Muiño, Patricia; Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose; Fiolhais, Miguel; Galhardo, Bruno; Gomes, Agostinho; Gonçalo, Ricardo; Jorge, Pedro; Machado Miguens, Joana; Maio, Amélia; Maneira, José; Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe; Onofre, António; Pedro, Rute; Santos, Helena; Saraiva, João; Silva, José; Tavares Delgado, Ademar; Veloso, Filipe; Wolters, Helmut

A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair (tt¯H) is reported. The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW*, ττ, and ZZ* are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV and a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the tt¯H production cross section is σ(tt¯H)=790-210+230 fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507-50+35 fb. The combination of this result with other tt¯H searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to bb¯, γγ and ZZ*→4ℓ, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the tt¯H production mode.

2018-04-09Journal article

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PICOSEC: Charged particle timing at sub-25 picosecond precision with a Micromegas based detector

Publication . Bortfeldt, J. et al. (40 authors); Gallinaro, M.

The prospect of pileup induced backgrounds at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in developing technologies for charged particle detection with accurate timing at high rates. The required accuracy follows directly from the nominal interaction distribution within a bunch crossing ( σz∼5 cm, σt∼170 ps). A time resolution of the order of 20–30 ps would lead to significant reduction of these backgrounds. With this goal, we present a new detection concept called PICOSEC, which is based on a “two-stage” Micromegas detector coupled to a Cherenkov radiator and equipped with a photocathode. First results obtained with this new detector yield a time resolution of 24 ps for 150 GeV muons, and 76 ps for single photoelectrons.

2018-09-21Journal article

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