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@PHDTHESIS{Sinha:619072,
author = {Sinha, Supriya},
othercontributors = {Moenig, Klaus and Lohse, Thomas and Hansmann-Menzemer,
Stephanie},
title = {{E}xtraction of top-{Y}ukawa coupling from $t\bar{t}$
cross-section in single-leptonic final state with $\sqrt{s}$
= 13{T}e{V} data from the {ATLAS} detector},
school = {Humboldt University},
type = {Dissertation},
reportid = {PUBDB-2024-07359},
pages = {185},
year = {2024},
note = {Dissertation, Humboldt University, 2024},
abstract = {In the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the
interaction of fermions with the Higgs field is referred to
as the Yukawa interaction, the strength of which is
proportional to the mass of the fermions. The top quark,
being the heaviest fermion, exhibits the largest value of
the Yukawa coupling strength. Conventionally, the pp→t¯tH
process has been extensively used to extract the top-Yukawa
coupling. However, this thesis aims to measure the ratio of
the top-Yukawa coupling strength over its SM value, i.e.,
Yt=gt/gSMt using differential distributions of the t¯t
cross-section. This method has an advantage that the
obtained Yt is independent of the Higgs coupling to other
particles. The analysis is conducted on the single-leptonic
decay channel using 2015−2018 data with a centre-of-mass
energy of √s=13TeV from the ATLAS detector at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC), corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 140fb−1. The presence of a virtual Higgs
boson between the two top quarks modifies the t¯t
differential cross-section. The electroweak correction,
which is a function of Yt, starts to enter the cross-section
at one-loop order. The largest Yt sensitivity is observed in
the regions close to the t¯t production threshold energy,
i.e., at low t¯t invariant mass (mt¯t) regions. An angular
dependence is also observed on the scattering angle of the
top quark in the t¯t rest frame, at large mt¯t values.
Events are reconstructed with at least four jets in the
final state, two of them with a requirement that they
originate from a B-hadron decay. An algorithm is devised to
specifically reconstruct the mt¯t for each event. A
detailed statistical analysis is then conducted, taking into
account all relevant backgrounds, whose contribution to the
total Monte Carlo prediction is very small. A profile
likelihood fit is performed on data using binned mt¯t
distributions for different Yt values. Due to a linear
dependence of the electroweak corrections on Y2t, the fit is
performed with Y2t as the parameter of interest. The
analysis is dominated by systematic uncertainties, with the
jet energy modelling and resolution uncertainties
contributing the most to the resultant error on Y2t. This is
followed by theoretical modelling uncertainties on the t¯t
sample. The fit results in an expected Y2t of 1.0+1.8−1.7,
with the observed Y2t of 2.3+1.8−1.7. An upper limit on Yt
at $95\\%$ confidence level is extracted using the obtained
Y2t. An observed upper limit of 2.32 on Yt is thus achieved,
with the expected upper limit of 2.06. The resulting Yt from
this method is less precise, but complementary to the Yt
obtained from other measurement methods due to its
sensitivity to a heavy Higgs sector.},
cin = {ATLAS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)ATLAS-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-ATLAS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/33188-0},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2024-07359},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/619072},
}