Search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2025)093

Search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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A search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark, tH, is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb⁻¹ at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The search targets Higgs-boson decays into bb¯, WW^*, ZZ^*, and ττ, accompanied by an isolated lepton (electron or muon) from the top-quark decay. Multivariate techniques are employed to enhance the separation between signal and background processes. The observed signal strength, μ_tH, defined as the ratio between the measured cross-section and the predicted Standard Model value, is μ_tH = 8.1 ± 2.6 (stat.) ± 2.0 (syst.). The significance of the observed (expected) signal above the background-only expectation is 2.8 (0.4) standard deviations. The corresponding observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the tH cross-section is found to be 13.9 (6.1) times the value predicted by the Standard Model. An interpretation with an inverted sign of the top-quark Yukawa coupling is performed, and the signal strength and corresponding limit are reported.

Original language	English
Article number	93
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2025
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)093
Publication status	Published - Oct 2025

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Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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Search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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