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Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics.
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Number of Authors: 28862015 (English)In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, no 4, article id 117Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Results of a search for H -> tau tau decays are presented, based on the full set of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC during 2011 and 2012. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb(-1) and 20.3 fb(-1) at centre-of-mass energies of root s = 7TeV and root s = 8 TeV respectively. All combinations of leptonic (tau -> l nu(nu) over bar with l = e, mu) and hadronic (tau -> hadrons nu) tau decays are considered. An excess of events over the expected background from other Standard Model processes is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.5 (3.4) standard deviations. This excess provides evidence for the direct coupling of the recently discovered Higgs boson to fermions. The measured signal strength, normalised to the Standard Model expectation, of mu = 1.43(-0.37)(+0.43) is consistent with the predicted Yukawa coupling strength in the Standard Model.

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2015. no 4, article id 117
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255002DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)117ISI: 000353557400001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-255002DiVA, id: diva2:820735
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ATLAS Collaboration, for complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.161801

Available from: 2015-06-12 Created: 2015-06-12 Last updated: 2017-12-04Bibliographically approved
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1. Searches for Higgs bosons with hadronically decaying τ-leptons: Using Grid and Cloud computing techniques
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Searches for Higgs bosons with hadronically decaying τ-leptons: Using Grid and Cloud computing techniques
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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This thesis describes a measurement of the Standard Model Higgs boson coupling to fermions in decays to two τ-leptons, a search for charged Higgs bosons in decays to a τ-lepton and a neutrino, as well as the reconstruction, identification and triggering of hadronically decaying τ-leptons. The data considered are collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The reconstruction and identification of hadronically decaying τ-leptons in the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider are described, and the performance of the τ trigger is measured in events with top–antitop-quark pairs using data from 13 TeV proton–proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1, collected in 2015, and 11.5 fb-1, collected in 2016.

Hadronically decaying τ-leptons are of importance to many physical processes involving Higgs bosons. The coupling of the Standard Model Higgs boson to fermions is measured in decays to two τ-leptons using 7 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb-1, collected in 2011, and 8 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1, collected in 2012. The signal strength is measured to be μ = 1.4, corresponding to an excess over the background-only model of 4.5σ.

Charged Higgs bosons are searched for in decays to a τ-lepton and a neutrino, where the τ-lepton decays hadronically. 13 TeV data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.7 fb-1, collected in 2015 and 2016, are used. No excess over the Standard Model background is observed, and the 95 % confidence-level exclusion limits on σ(pp → [b]tH+) × (H+ → τν) are set to 2.0 pb–8 fb in the range 200–2000 GeV.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016. p. 111
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1434
Keywords
LHC, ATLAS, Higgs, Charged Higgs, Tau lepton, 2HDM, MSSM
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Subatomic Physics
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Physics with specialization in Elementary Particle Physics
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304291 (URN)978-91-554-9706-4 (ISBN)
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2016-11-21, Polhemsalen, 10134, Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2016-10-31 Created: 2016-10-03 Last updated: 2016-11-17

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