Higgs Physics: Theory

Mar, 2012

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Abstract: (arXiv)
I review the theoretical aspects of the physics of Higgs bosons, focusing on the elements that are relevant for the production and detection at present hadron colliders. After briefly summarizing the basics of electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model, I discuss Higgs production at the LHC and at the Tevatron, with some focus on the main production mechanism, the gluon-gluon fusion process, and summarize the main Higgs decay modes and the experimental detection channels. I then briefly survey the case of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. In a last section, I review the prospects for determining the fundamental properties of the Higgs particles once they have been experimentally observed.
Note:
  • 21 pages, 15 figures. Talk given at the XXV International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (Lepton Photon 11), 22-27 August 2011, Mumbai, India
  • 12.15.Ji
  • 14.80.Bn
  • 12.38.Bx
  • Electroweak symmetry breaking
  • Higgs boson
  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Tevatron
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • supersymmetry: minimal
  • gluon gluon: fusion