Measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling from tt¯kinematic distributions in the dilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

TLDR: In this article, a measurement of the Higgs boson Yukawa coupling to the top quark is presented using proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}, recorded with the CMS detector.

Abstract: A measurement of the Higgs boson Yukawa coupling to the top quark is presented using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}$, recorded with the CMS detector. The coupling strength with respect to the standard model value, $Y_\mathrm{t}$, is determined from kinematic distributions in $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ final states containing ee, $\mu\mu$, or e$\mu$ pairs. Variations of the Yukawa coupling strength lead to modified distributions for $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ production. In particular, the distributions of the mass of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ system and the rapidity difference of the top quark and antiquark are sensitive to the value of $Y_\mathrm{t}$. The measurement yields a best fit value of $Y_\mathrm{t}=$ 1.16$^{+0.24}_{-0.35}$, bounding $Y_\mathrm{t}\lt$ 1.54 at a 95% confidence level.