# Search for the production of the Higgs boson associated with a pair of top quarks with the Atlas detector at the LHC

Abstract : The production of the Higgs boson associated with a pair of top quarks is one of the most important Higgs boson production modes yet still not observed. Therefore, its discovery is one of the most challenging searches after the Higgs discovery: not only will it be the first time we can observe this Higgs production mode but also we will be able to measure its Yukawa coupling to the top quark. The measured results can answer the basic question of the Standard Model (SM) and can also search for any hints of new physics beyond the SM prediction. An analysis searching for the production of the Higgs boson associated with a pair of top quarks in three leptons final states is presented in this thesis. It is performed with the data collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 during the so-called « Run 2 » campaign corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV. It uses a boosted decision tree algorithm to discriminate between signal and background. The dominant background of fake leptons is estimated with the data-driven matrix method (Matrix Method). For a 125 GeV Standard Model Higgs boson, an excess of events over the expected background from other SM processes is found with an observed significance of 2.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 1.5 standard deviations. The best fit for the $t\bar tH$ production cross section is $1.5^{+0.8}_{-0.7}$ times the SM expectation, consistent with the SM value of the Yukawa coupling to top quarks.
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Wang Chao. Search for the production of the Higgs boson associated with a pair of top quarks with the Atlas detector at the LHC. High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]. AMU - Aix Marseille Université, 2017. English. ⟨tel-02276363⟩

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