Charming Higgs at the top of the world

This month marked the appearance of a remarkable result that made it to the public and shown at the Large Hadron Collider conference in Taipei, leading to a significant improvement on the previously published constraints on the charm-Higgs interactions. The studied process is the least easy one: the associated production of top quark pairs with a Higgs boson, with its subsequent decay to a pair of charm quarks. The identification of charmed jets with an extensive use of AI techniques is what makes this result particularly charming. These new CMS results were presented by our postdoctoral researcher, Jan Van der Linden, with several other members of the groups contributing to this achievement, including our PhD student, Maarten De Coen. Discover more about this study in the recent CERN press release.