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The ATLAS and CMS collaborations observed a mild excess in the associated Higgs production with a top-quark pair \( \left(t\overline{t}h\right) \) and reported the signal strengths of μ ATLAS tth = 1.81 ± 0.80 and μ CMS tth = 2.75 ± 0.99 based on the data collected at \( \sqrt{s}=7 \) and 8 TeV. Although, at the current stage, there is no obvious indication whether the excess is real or due to statistical fluctuations, here we perform a case study of this mild excess by exploiting the strong entanglement between the associated Higgs production with a single top quark (thX) and \( t\overline{t}h \) production in the presence of anomalous top-Yukawa coupling. As well known, \( t\overline{t}h \) production only depends on the absolute value of the top-Yukawa coupling. Meanwhile, in thX production, this degeneracy is lifted through the strong interference between the two main contributions which are proportional to the top-Yukawa and the gauge-Higgs couplings, respectively. Especially, when the relative sign of the top-Yukawa coupling with respect to the gauge-Higgs coupling is reversed, the thX cross section can be enhanced by more than one order of magnitude. We perform a detailed study of the influence of thX production on \( t\overline{t}h \) production in the presence of the anomalous top-Yukawa coupling and point out that it is crucial to include thX production in the analysis of the \( t\overline{t}h \) data to pin down the sign and the size of the top-Yukawa coupling in future. While assuming the Standard Model (SM) value for the gauge-Higgs coupling, we vary the top-Yukawa coupling within the range allowed by the current LHC Higgs data. We consider the Higgs decay modes into multileptons, \( b\overline{b} \) and γγ putting a particular emphasis on the same sign dilepton events. We also discuss the prospects for the LHC Run-2 on how to disentangle thX production from \( t\overline{t}h \) one and how to probe the anomalous top-Yukawa coupling.
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Chang, J., Cheung, K., Lee, J.S. et al. Entangling Higgs production associated with a single top and a top-quark pair in the presence of anomalous top-Yukawa coupling. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 138 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)138
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