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We show that associated production of a Higgs with a top pair can be observed in purely hadronic decays. Reconstructing the top quarks in the form of jet buckets allows us to control QCD backgrounds as well as signal combinatorics. The background can be measured from side bands in the reconstructed Higgs mass. We back up our claims with a detailed study of the QCD event simulation, both for the signal and for the backgrounds.
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Buckley, M.R., Plehn, T., Schell, T. et al. Buckets of Higgs and tops. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 130 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)130
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