Searching for the Higgs Boson

Name: Searching for the Higgs Boson
Start: 2006-11-06T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2006-11-09T17:45:00+01:00
Location: M. de Hemptinne

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

e.349 (M. de Hemptinne)

e.349

M. de Hemptinne

Description

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.

Support

maltoni@fyma.ucl.ac.be

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.