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SUMMARY:"The Beauty of the Higgs boson"
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Caterina Vernieri\, Fermilab\nHosted by: Tulika Bose\
	nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//files/download/Caterina-Vernieri-P
	oster.pdf\n\nPart of the HEE Seminar Series.\n\nThe Large Hadron Collider (
	LHC) is the world’s most energetic particle accelerator. During its first
	 run (2009-2012)\, the ATLAS and CMS experiments discovered the Higgs boson
	. This discovery  marked a historical milestone in the study of fundamental
	 particles and their interactions. Physicists are nowadays measuring the Hi
	ggs boson’s properties to build deep understanding of the Higgs sector of
	 the Standard Model and potentially to unveil Beyond the Standard Model phe
	nomena. The Higgs boson can also be used as a discovery tool in direct sear
	ches for new particles coupling to the Higgs. Both in the precision and the
	 direct search programs a special role is played by the Higgs decay into b-
	quarks since it occurs with the largest probability of all its decay channe
	ls. However\, searches for these decays in the gluon fusion production mode
	 have long been considered impossible due to the overwhelming background fr
	om QCD production of b quarks. In this talk I will show how we can access t
	his process in the boosted topology\, where the Higgs to bb system is recon
	structed as a single\, large-radius jet. The techniques developed to identi
	fy and reconstruct Higgs bosons with momentum considerably higher than thei
	r mass are crucial as they enable searches for previously inaccessible new 
	physics scenarios.
LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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