Reconstruction and Selection of Single Top + Higgs to bb events at CMS in pp Collisions at √(s) = 13 TeV

2016/12/09 by Kevin Flöh, Flöh, Kevin
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.02997

Proceeding Top 2016

arxiv created 2016/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2016/12/09 · arxiv updated 2016/12/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The associated production of a single top quark together with a Higgs boson at the LHC can be used to lift the degeneracy regarding the sign of the top quark Yukawa coupling. Therefore, t-channel and tW-channel production where the Higgs boson is decaying into a bb pair is inspected. Boosted decision trees are used to assign jets to the quarks in the final state and classify the events. To maximize the separation between the signal and the dominating tt background each event is reconstructed under a signal and a tt hypothesis. The poster focuses on the event selection and the reconstruction of events.

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