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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.091802
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- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship [PIEF-GA-2011-299999]
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office through the Interuniversity Attraction Pole [P7/37]
- FWO-Vlaanderen [G.0114.10N]
- Strategic Research Program High Energy Physics
- Research Council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Belgian American Education Foundation
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Associated production of the Higgs boson with a top-antitop pair is a key channel to gather further information on the nature of the newly discovered boson at the LHC. Experimentally, however, its observation is very challenging due to the combination of small rates, difficult multijet final states, and overwhelming backgrounds. In the standard model, the largest number of events is expected when h -> b (b) over bar, giving rise to a W+W- b (b) over barb (b) over bar signature, deluged in t (t) over bar + jets. A promising strategy to improve the sensitivity is to maximally exploit the theoretical information on the signal and background processes by means of the matrix element method. We show how, despite the complexity of the final state, the method can be efficiently applied to discriminate the signal against combinatorial and t (t) over bar + jets backgrounds. Remarkably, we find that a moderate integrated luminosity in the next LHC run will be enough to make the signature involving both W's decaying leptonically as sensitive as the single-lepton one.
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