Search for Higgs Bosons produced in association with top quarks with the ATLAS detector

by Prof. Vivek Jain (SUNY Albany)

Thursday 14 Jan 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 US/Eastern

Universe

Due to the large measured mass of the top quark, the Yukawa coupling of the top quark (yt) is much stronger than that of other quarks. The observation of the t¯tH production mode would allow for a direct measurement of this coupling, to which other Higgs production modes are only sensitive via loop effects. Since yt is expected to be close to unity, it is also argued to be the quantity that might give insight into the scale of new physics. Using various Higgs decay modes, we report on the status of this search using data collected with the ATLAS detector at 7 and 8 TeV collision energies.

Slides ttHSeminar_BNL_Jan2016.pdf