Physics (Internal)

Results and prospects for H->Zgamma

This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

Abstract: With the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, the next goals of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment include characterizing this new particle and probing for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Being loop-induced, the Higgs boson decay into a Z boson and photon is an important window into possible new physics scenarios. I will describe the CMS search for Higgs decays to Z+gamma, with the Z boson decaying into electron or muon pairs. I will also describe the next generation of H->Z+gamma analyses, which the matrix element method, the search for Higgs Dalitz decays (H->llgamma), as well as the very challenging Z->nunu channel.