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Associated production of the Higgs boson with a single top quark proceeds through Feynman diagrams, which are either proportional to the hW W , top-Yukawa, or the bottom-Yukawa couplings. It was shown in literature that the interference between the top-Yukawa and the gauge-Higgs diagrams can be significant, and thus the measurement of the cross sections can help pin down the sign and the size of the top-Yukawa coupling. Here we perform a detailed study with full detector simulations of such a possibility at the LHC-14 within the current allowed range of hW W and top-Yukawa couplings, using h → b \( \overline{b} \) , γγ, τ + τ − , ZZ * → 4ℓ modes. We found that the LHC-14 has the potential to distinguish the size and the sign of the top-Yukawa coupling. Among the channels the h → b \( \overline{b} \) mode provides the best chance to probe the signal, followed by the h → γγ mode, which has the advantage of a narrow reconstructed mass peak. We also pointed out that the spatial separation among the final-state particles has the potential in differentiating among various values of the top-Yukawa coupling.
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Chang, J., Cheung, K., Lee, J.S. et al. Probing the top-Yukawa coupling in associated Higgs production with a single top quark. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 62 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)062
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