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Christian Böser

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Experimental searches for tHq

The Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson to top quarks $\text{Y}_\text{t}$ is of particular interest as the top quark plays a special role in the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. Any deviation from its predicted value could hint at new physics. For this investigation the associated production of a Higgs boson and a single top quark (tHq) is a promising channel. Due to interference terms in the production amplitude the cross section $σ_\text{tHq}$ is not only sensitive to the magnitude of $\text{Y}_\text{t}$ but also to its sign making this channel special. In addition the branching ratio BR($\text{H}\toγγ$) is sensitive to sign and magnitude of $\text{Y}_\text{t}$. The ATLAS and CMS collaborations exploit both effects to set upper limits on $σ_\text{tHq}$ and the deviation of $\text{Y}_\text{t}$ by applying inherently different approaches. The most recent results from both collaborations using the full data provided by the LHC are presented.

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Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production

We present a measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production using an integrated luminosity of 1.09 fb-1 collected with the CMS detector. Top quark pairs with a signature of one electron or muon and four or more jets, at least one of them b tagged, are selected. At the LHC a small charge asymmetry in the rapidity distributions of top and antitop quarks is predicted. Therein slightly broader rapidity distributions for top quarks are expected, while antitop quarks are produced more centrally and possess narrower rapidity distributions. We determine the charge asymmetry based on two different sensitive variables and the results are compared with the most precise standard model theory predictions using a dedicated unfolding technique.

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