Search for heavy Higgs bosons with flavour-violating couplings in multi-lepton plus b-jets final states in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Abusleme Hoffman, AC
et al (show 2914 more authors) (2023) Search for heavy Higgs bosons with flavour-violating couplings in multi-lepton plus b-jets final states in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 (12). 81-.

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Abstract

<jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc> </jats:title><jats:p>A search for new heavy scalars with flavour-violating decays in final states with multiple leptons and <jats:italic>b</jats:italic>-tagged jets is presented. The results are interpreted in terms of a general two-Higgs-doublet model involving an additional scalar with couplings to the top-quark and the three up-type quarks (<jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tt</jats:italic></jats:sub>, <jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tc</jats:italic></jats:sub>, and <jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tu</jats:italic></jats:sub>). The targeted signals lead to final states with either a same-sign top-quark pair, three top-quarks, or four top-quarks. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula> = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>. Events are categorised depending on the multiplicity of light charged leptons (electrons or muons), total lepton charge, and a deep-neural-network output to enhance the purity of each of the signals. Masses of an additional scalar boson <jats:italic>m</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>H</jats:italic></jats:sub> between 200 − 630 GeV with couplings <jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tt</jats:italic></jats:sub> = 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>4, <jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tc</jats:italic></jats:sub> = 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>2, and <jats:italic>ρ</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>tu</jats:italic></jats:sub> = 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>2 are excluded at 95% confidence level. Additional interpretations are provided in models of <jats:italic>R</jats:italic>-parity violating supersymmetry, motivated by the recent flavour and (<jats:italic>g −</jats:italic> 2)<jats:sub><jats:italic>μ</jats:italic></jats:sub> anomalies.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2024 09:05
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2024 19:17
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2023)081
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3178710