Measurement of the Top Quark Yukawa Coupling from tt Kinematic Distributions in the Dilepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13  TeV
Physical Review D 2020
Viesturs Veckalns

A measurement of the Higgs boson Yukawa coupling to the top quark is presented using proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1, recorded with the CMS detector. The coupling strength with respect to the standard model value, Yt, is determined from kinematic distributions in tt¯ final states containing ee, μμ, or eμ pairs. Variations of the Yukawa coupling strength lead to modified distributions for tt¯ production. In particular, the distributions of the mass of the tt¯ system and the rapidity difference of the top quark and antiquark are sensitive to the value of Yt. The measurement yields a best fit value of Yt=1.16-0.35+0.24, bounding Yt<1.54 at a 95% confidence level.


DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.092013
Hyperlink
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.092013

Veckalns, V., CERN international group of authors. Measurement of the Top Quark Yukawa Coupling from tt Kinematic Distributions in the Dilepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13  TeV. Physical Review D, 2020, Vol. 102, No. 9, Article number 092013. ISSN 2470-0010. e-ISSN 2470-0029. Available from: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.092013

Publication language
English (en)
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