Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 475
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3696-y

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Probing the top-Higgs coupling through the secondary lepton distributions in the associated production of the top-quark pair and Higgs boson at the LHC

Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40007, Katowice, Poland

^* e-mail: karol.kolodziej@us.edu.pl

Received: 7 July 2015
Accepted: 22 September 2015
Published online: 5 October 2015

Abstract

We complement the analysis of the anomalous top-Higgs coupling effects on the secondary lepton distributions in the associated production of the top-quark pair and Higgs boson in proton–proton collisions at the LHC of the former work by one of the present authors by taking into account the quark–antiquark production mechanism. We also present simple arguments which explain why the effects of the scalar and pseudoscalar anomalous couplings on the unpolarized cross section of the process are completely insensitive to the sign of either of them.