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Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson and a single top quark in pp collisions at \sqrt{s} = 13\,\mathrm{TeV}

A search for the production of Higgs boson in association with a single top quark is presented, based on data collected in 2016 with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center of mass energy of 13~\mathrm{TeV}, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. The production cross section of this process is highly sensitive to the absolute values of the modifiers of the top quark-Higgs boson coupling, κt\kappa_{\mathrm{t}}, and the coupling of vector bosons to the Higgs boson, κV\kappa_{\mathrm{V}}, as well as their relative signs with respect to the standard model. Analyses using multilepton signatures due to HWW\mathrm{H}\rightarrow\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}, Hττ\mathrm{H}\rightarrow\tau\tau, and HZZ\mathrm{H}\rightarrow\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z} decay modes and that with a single lepton for the decay Hbb\mathrm{H}\rightarrow\mathrm{b\overline{b}} are combined with a reinterpretation of a measurement of Hγγ\mathrm{H}\to\gamma\gamma to constrain κt\kappa_\mathrm{t}. For κV=1.0\kappa_\mathrm{V}=1.0 the observed data favor positive values of κt\kappa_\mathrm{t} and exclude values of κt\kappa_\mathrm{t} below about 0.90.9.

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