Abstract
A search is presented for flavour-changing neutral-current interactions involving the top quark, the Higgs boson and an up-type quark (q=u,c) with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis considers leptonic decays of the top quark along with Higgs boson decays into two W bosons, two Z bosons or a τ+τ− pair. It focuses on final states containing either two leptons (electrons or muons) of the same charge or three leptons. The considered processes are tt¯ and Ht production. For the tt¯ production, one top quark decays via t→Hq. The proton-proton collision data set analysed amounts to 140 fb−1 at s√=13 TeV. No significant excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed and upper limits are set on the t→Hq branching ratios at 95\% confidence level, amounting to observed (expected) limits of B(t→Hu)<2.8(3.0)×10−4 and B(t→Hc)<3.3(3.8)×10−4. Combining this search with other searches for tHq flavour-changing neutral-current interactions previously conducted by ATLAS, considering H→bb¯ and H→γγ decays, as well as H→τ+τ− decays with one or two hadronically decaying τ-leptons, yields observed (expected) upper limits on the branching ratios of B(t→Hu)<2.6(1.8)×10−4 and B(t→Hc)<3.4(2.3)×10−4.