Higgs Precision Measurements

Note: Time: 3:30 PM...... Refreshments served
Speaker: Markus Klute, MIT

When: November 7, 2013 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595
Hosted by: Tulika Bose

This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

Abstract: The observation of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments is a triumph of the standard model. However, the SM is not able to explain dark matter, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, or neutrino masses. The absence of signals for physics beyond the SM up to at least 1 TeV makes the precise measurement of Higgs boson properties a key challenge of the field in the coming decades.

First measurements of the Higgs boson properties are compatible with those of the long sought standard-model Higgs boson. I will summarize the findings of the LHC experiments after the first three years of operation.

In response to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a number of machine concepts have been proposed to enable detailed study of the properties. I will discuss the potential of Higgs precision measurements at future hadron and lepton colliders.