New strategies for Higgs physics

Note: 2:00 PM
Speaker: Stefania Gori, Perimeter Institute

When: February 11, 2015 (Wed), 02:00PM to 03:00PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract: The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marks the culmination of a decades-long hunt for the last ingredient of the Standard Model. At the same time, this discovery has started a new era in the search for more fundamental physics. In this talk, I will briefly review the status of the Higgs program at the LHC, and discuss the implications of the present measurements for New Physics. I will then propose new ways to probe the Higgs and to discover new Higgs bosons arising in theories beyond the Standard Model. Particular emphasis will be dedicated to the role of Higgs exotic decays to discover otherwise undetected new phenomena.