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This paper presents the search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark (tHq), using data collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb. The search exploits a variety of Higgs boson decay modes resulting in final states with photons, bottom quarks, and multiple charged leptons, including tau leptons, and employs a variety of multivariate techniques to maximize sensitivity to the signal. The analysis is optimized for the opposite sign of the Yukawa coupling to that in the standard model, corresponding to a large enhancement of the signal cross section. In the absence of an excess of candidate signal events over the background predictions, 95% confidence level observed (expected) upper limits on anomalous tHq production are set, ranging between 600 (450) fb and 1000 (700) fb depending on the assumed diphoton branching fraction of the Higgs boson. This is the first time that results on anomalous tHq production have been reported.
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Muhammad Ahmad, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Giovanni Bianchi, Roberto Castello, Yixing Chen, Jie Chen, Tian Cheng, Giuseppe Codispoti, Alessandro Degano, Charles Dietz, Milos Dordevic, Dipanwita Dutta, Matthias Finger, Francesco Fiori, Yu Fu, Yifei Guo, Ruchi Gupta, Csaba Hajdu, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Donghyun Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Sanjeev Kumar, Vineet Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Ho Ling Li, Wei Li, Shuai Liu, Hao Liu, Werner Lustermann, Matteo Marone, Thomas Muller, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Vladimir Petrov, Andrea Rizzi, Paolo Ronchese, Sourav Sen, Varun Sharma, Ashish Sharma, Lesya Shchutska, Muhammad Shoaib, Michal Simon, Gurpreet Singh, Jan Steggemann, Wei Sun, Andromachi Tsirou, Paul Turner, Joao Varela, Jian Wang, Xiao Wang, Mingkui Wang, Zheng Wang, Qian Wang, Matthias Weber, Matthias Wolf, Wenjing Wu, Fan Yang, Yong Yang, Kai Yi, Lei Zhang, Yu Zheng
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