Dr Eleonora Rossi

Abstract:

This article presents a search for a heavy charged Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark and a bottom quark, and decaying into a W boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson h. The search is performed in final states with one charged lepton, missing transverse momentum, and jets using proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the LHC at CERN. This data set corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The search is conducted by examining the reconstructed invariant mass distribution of the Wh candidates for evidence of a localised excess in the charged Higgs boson mass range from 250 GeV to 3 TeV. No significant excess of data over the expected background is observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits between 2.8 pb and 1.2 fb are placed on the production cross-section times branching ratio for charged Higgs bosons decaying into Wh.

Abstract:

<jats:p>A search for the production of three Higgs bosons (<a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mi>H</a:mi><a:mi>H</a:mi><a:mi>H</a:mi></a:math>) in the <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mover accent="true"><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mo stretchy="false">¯</c:mo></c:mover><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mover accent="true"><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mo stretchy="false">¯</c:mo></c:mover><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mover accent="true"><c:mi>b</c:mi><c:mo stretchy="false">¯</c:mo></c:mover></c:math> final state is presented. The search uses <k:math xmlns:k="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><k:mn>126</k:mn><k:mtext> </k:mtext><k:mtext> </k:mtext><k:msup><k:mi>fb</k:mi><k:mrow><k:mo>−</k:mo><k:mn>1</k:mn></k:mrow></k:msup></k:math> of proton-proton collision data at <m:math xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><m:msqrt><m:mi>s</m:mi></m:msqrt><m:mo>=</m:mo><m:mn>13</m:mn><m:mtext> </m:mtext><m:mtext> </m:mtext><m:mi>TeV</m:mi></m:math> collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis targets both nonresonant and resonant production of <o:math xmlns:o="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><o:mi>H</o:mi><o:mi>H</o:mi><o:mi>H</o:mi></o:math>. The resonant interpretations primarily consider a cascade decay topology of <q:math xmlns:q="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><q:mi>X</q:mi><q:mo stretchy="false">→</q:mo><q:mi>S</q:mi><q:mi>H</q:mi><q:mo stretchy="false">→</q:mo><q:mi>H</q:mi><q:mi>H</q:mi><q:mi>H</q:mi></q:math> with masses of the new scalars <u:math xmlns:u="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><u:mi>X</u:mi></u:math> and <w:math xmlns:w="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><w:mi>S</w:mi></w:math> up to 1.5 and 1 TeV, respectively. In addition to scenarios where <y:math xmlns:y="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><y:mi>S</y:mi></y:math> is off-shell, the nonresonant interpretation includes a search for Standard Model <ab:math xmlns:ab="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><ab:mi>H</ab:mi><ab:mi>H</ab:mi><ab:mi>H</ab:mi></ab:math> production, with limits on the trilinear and quartic Higgs self-coupling set. No evidence for <cb:math xmlns:cb="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><cb:mi>H</cb:mi><cb:mi>H</cb:mi><cb:mi>H</cb:mi></cb:math> production is observed. An upper limit of 59 fb is set, at the 95% confidence level, on the cross section for Standard Model <eb:math xmlns:eb="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><eb:mi>H</eb:mi><eb:mi>H</eb:mi><eb:mi>H</eb:mi></eb:math> production.</jats:p> <jats:sec> <jats:title/> <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:permissions> <jats:copyright-statement>© 2025 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> <jats:copyright-holder>CERN</jats:copyright-holder> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material> </jats:sec>

Abstract:

A search for the production of top-quark pairs with the same electric charge (tt or tt¯) is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. Events with two same-charge leptons and at least two b-tagged jets are selected. Neural networks are employed to define two selections sensitive to additional couplings beyond the Standard Model that would enhance the production rate of same-sign top-quark pairs. No significant signal is observed, leading to an upper limit on the total production cross-section of same-sign top-quark pairs of 1.6 fb at 95% confidence level. Corresponding limits on the three Wilson coefficients associated with the Otu1, OQu1, and OQu8 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework are derived.