Abraham, N L, Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Jones, S, Lerner, G, Miano, F, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Shaw, K, Stevenson, T J, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Tresoldi, F, Trovato, F, Vivarelli, I, Winkels, E, Winston, O J, The ATLAS Collaboration, and others, (2018) Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top quark decays t→Hc and t→Hu in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 98 (032002). pp. 1-25. ISSN 2470-0010
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Abstract
Flavor-changing neutral currents are not present in the Standard Model at tree level and are suppressed in loop processes by the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix; the corresponding rates for top quark decay processes are experimentally unobservable. Extensions of the Standard Model can generate new flavor-changing neutral current processes, leading to signals which, if observed, would be unambiguous evidence of new interactions. A data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for top quarks decaying to up or charm quarks with the emission of a Higgs boson, with subsequent Higgs boson decay to final states with at least one electron or muon. No signal is observed and limits on the branching fractions B(t→Hc)<0.16% and (t→Hu)<0.19% at 95% confidence level are obtained (with expected limits of 0.15% in both cases.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Research Centres and Groups: | Experimental Particle Physics Research Group |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Depositing User: | Alice Jackson |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2018 14:29 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2019 19:47 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/80071 |
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