Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t ? Hq, with H ? bb¯ , in pp Collisions at vs = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

This PhD thesis focuses on the search for flavor-changing neutral currents in the decay of a top quark to an up-type quark (q = u, c) and the Standard Model Higgs boson, where the Higgs boson decays to bb.