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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
7-13-2022
Citation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 129, 032001 (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.032001
Abstract
Proton-proton interactions resulting in final states with two photons are studied in a search for the signature of flavor-changing neutral current interactions of top quarks (t) and Higgs bosons (H). The analysis is based on data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. No significant excess above the background prediction is observed. Upper limits on the branching fractions (Ɓ) of the top quark decaying to a Higgs boson and an up (u) or charm (c) quark are derived through a binned fit to the diphoton invariant mass spectrum. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limits are found to be 0.019% (0.031%) for Ɓ(t → Hu) and 0.073% (0.051%) for Ɓ(t → Hc). These are the strictest upper limits yet determined.
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