Articulo
Search for Heavy Higgs bosons A/H decaying to a top quark pair in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
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issn:0031-9007
Autor
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Hoya, Joaquín
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
Institución
Resumen
A search for heavy pseudoscalar (A) and scalar (H) Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark pair (tt) has been performed with 20.3 fb<sup>-1</sup> of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy √s=8 TeV. Interference effects between the signal process and standard model tt production, which are expected to distort the signal shape from a single peak to a peak-dip structure, are taken into account. No significant deviation from the standard model prediction is observed in the tt invariant mass spectrum in final states with an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets. The results are interpreted within the context of a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Exclusion limits on the signal strength are derived as a function of the mass m<sub>A/H</sub> and the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs fields, tanβ, for m<sub>A/H</sub>>500 GeV. La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo Instituto de Física La Plata