TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al AU - Alvarez Piqueras, D. AU - Aparisi Pozo, J. A. AU - Bailey, A. J. AU - Barranco Navarro, L. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo, F. L. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Cerda Alberich, L. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Escobar, C. AU - Estrada Pastor, O. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fullana Torregrosa, E. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Jimenez Pena, J. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lozano Bahilo, J. J. AU - Madaffari, D. AU - Mamuzic, J. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Melini, D. AU - MiƱano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Rodriguez Bosca, S. AU - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. AU - Ruiz-Martinez, A. AU - Salt, J. AU - Santra, A. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2019 DA - 2019// TI - Search for top-quark decays t -> Hq with 36 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - J. High Energy Phys. JO - Journal of High Energy Physics SP - 123 EP - 67pp VL - 05 IS - 5 PB - Springer KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) KW - Rare decay KW - Top physics AB - A search for flavour-changing neutral current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark (q = u, c) and the Standard Model Higgs boson, t Hq, is presented. The search is based on a dataset of pp collisions at = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1). Two complementary analyses are performed to search for top-quark pair events in which one top quark decays into Wb and the other top quark decays into Hq, and target the Hbb and H (+-) decay modes, respectively. The high multiplicity of b-quark jets, or the presence of hadronically decaying -leptons, is exploited in the two analyses respectively. Multivariate techniques are used to separate the signal from the background, which is dominated by top-quark pair production. No significant excess of events above the background expectation is found, and 95% CL upper limits on the t Hq branching ratios are derived. The combination of these searches with ATLAS searches in diphoton and multilepton final states yields observed (expected) 95% CL upper limits on the t Hc and t Hu branching ratios of 1.1 x 10(-3) (8.3 x 10(-4)) and 1.2 x 10(-3) (8.3 x 10(-4)), respectively. The corresponding combined observed (expected) upper limits on the |(tcH)| and |(tuH)| couplings are 0.064 (0.055) and 0.066 (0.055), respectively. SN - 1029-8479 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11568 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)123 DO - 10.1007/JHEP05(2019)123 LA - English N1 - WOS:000468948900001 ID - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2019 ER -