Search for Higgs Boson Decay to a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Proton-Proton Collisions at Formula Presented


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Tumasyan A., Adam W., Andrejkovic J., Bergauer T., Chatterjee S., Damanakis K., ...Daha Fazla

Physical Review Letters, cilt.131, sa.6, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 131 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.061801
  • Dergi Adı: Physical Review Letters
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC, zbMATH, DIALNET
  • Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a charm quark-antiquark pair, H → c c ¯ , produced in association with a leptonically decaying V ( W or Z ) boson is presented. The search is performed with proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb - 1 . Novel charm jet identification and analysis methods using machine learning techniques are employed. The analysis is validated by searching for Z → c c ¯ in V Z events, leading to its first observation at a hadron collider with a significance of 5.7 standard deviations. The observed (expected) upper limit on σ ( V H ) B ( H → c c ¯ ) is 0.94 ( 0.50 - 0.15 + 0.22 )pb at 95% confidence level (C.L.), corresponding to 14 ( 7.6 - 2.3 + 3.4 ) times the standard model prediction. For the Higgs-charm Yukawa coupling modifier, κ c , the observed (expected) 95% C.L. interval is 1.1 < | κ c | < 5.5 ( | κ c | < 3.4 ), the most stringent constraint to date.