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Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top quark decays t?Hc and t?Hu in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at vs=13??TeV with the ATLAS detector
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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:47 authored by N L Abraham, Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, C A Chavez Barajas, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, Samuel Jones, G Lerner, F Miano, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, I Santoyo Castillo, Kate ShawKate Shaw, Thomas StevensonThomas Stevenson, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Fabio Tresoldi, Fabrizio Trovato, Iacopo Vivarelli, E Winkels, O J Winston, The ATLAS Collaboration, othersFlavor-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 vs=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.
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Physical Review DISSN
2470-0010Publisher
American Physical SocietyExternal DOI
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032002Volume
98Page range
1-25Department affiliated with
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