Light Higgs searches in $t \bar t \phi$ production at the LHC
Duarte Azevedo, Rodrigo Capucha, Emanuel Gouveia, Ant\'onio Onofre,, Rui Santos

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new mass reconstruction method for low-mass scalar bosons produced with top-quark pairs at the LHC, improving resolution and sensitivity, and explores CP properties and exclusion limits for such scalars.
Contribution
It presents a novel reconstruction technique that enhances mass resolution in $t\bar{t}\phi$ production, enabling better discrimination of CP properties and setting exclusion limits at the HL-LHC.
Findings
Improved mass resolution by at least a factor of two in the low mass region.
Set 95% CL exclusion limits on CP-even and CP-odd Yukawa couplings.
Analyzed the impact on the parameter space of the complex two-Higgs doublet model.
Abstract
In this paper we propose a new reconstruction method to explore the low mass region in the associated production of top-quark pairs () with a generic scalar boson () at the LHC. The new method of mass reconstruction shows an improved resolution of at least a factor of two in the low mass region when compared to previous methods, without the loss of sensitivity of previous analyses. It turns out that it also leads to an improvement of the mass reconstruction of the 125 GeV Higgs for the same production process. We use an effective Lagrangian to describe a scalar with a generic Yukawa coupling to the top quarks. A full phenomenological analysis was performed, using Standard Model background and signal events generated with MadGraph5\_aMC@NLO and reconstructed using a kinematic fit. The use of CP-sensitive variables allows then to maximize the distinction between CP-even…
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