Searching for the Higgs Boson

6 Nov 2006, 10:30 → 9 Nov 2006, 17:45 Europe/Brussels

e.349 (M. de Hemptinne)

This is a series of introductory lectures on SM and BSM physics of the Higgs boson, in particular on the searches strategies at the collider. Level: from diploma students up, experimentalists and theorists.

Slides

• Lecture II
• Lecture III
• Lecture IV

Monday, 6 November

10:30 → 12:00 Lecture I

Introduction to the Higgs mechanism: U(1) and SU(2)xU(1) cases.
SUSY Higgs sector.
Bounds on the Higgs mass from unitarity and triviality.

Tuesday, 7 November

10:30 → 12:00 Lecture II

Collider searches for the Standard Model Higgs:
LEP, Tevatron and LHC.
Production mechanisms and decays.

Wednesday, 8 November

09:00 → 10:30 Lecture III

Reconstructing the scalar sector from collider data: from discovery to
accurate measurements.

Thursday, 9 November

16:15 → 17:45 Lecture IV

Beyond the standard model Higgs: searches and strategies.