Sanjoy Biswas, Emidio Gabrielli, Fabrizio Margaroli, Barbara Mele
The LHC experiments have analyzed the 7 and 8 TeV LHC data in the main Higgs production and decay modes. Current analyses only loosely constrain an anomalous top-Higgs coupling in a direct way. In order to strongly constrain this coupling, the Higgs-top associated production is reanalyzed. Thanks to the strong destructive interference in the t-channel for standard model couplings, this process can be very sensitive to both the magnitude and the sign of a non-standard top-Higgs coupling. We project the sensitivity to anomalous couplings to the integrated luminosity of 50 fb^{-1}, corresponding to the data collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 7 and 8 TeV collisions, as of 2012. We show that, by analyzing events from different combinations of the top and Higgs decay modes, it is possible to directly constrain a large portion of the negative top-Higgs coupling space presently allowed by the ATLAS and CMS global fits.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1822
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