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    Seminars and Journal Clubs

    Who ordered that? Investigations of the top-Higgs connection

    by Andrea Giammanco (UCL)

    → Europe/Brussels
    E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

    E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349)

    Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)

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    Description
    The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, and it features a tantalizing numerical coincidence: from its measured mass, the Standard Model predicts a value of its Yukawa coupling to the Higgs boson strikingly close to 1. This stimulated a flourishing theoretical literature entertaining the possibility of a deep connection between the top quark and the actual mechanism of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking. This talk reviews the state of the art and the future prospects for two complementary experimental efforts at the LHC: precisely (and accurately!) measuring the top quark mass, and constraining the modulus of the Higgs-top Yukawa coupling via direct searches for the ttH process and indirectly through global fits.
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