Thursday, May 20, 2010, 16:00
OSGA/E6
S. Dittmaier, University of Freiburg
Abstract:
One of the major goals at the LHC experiment is to unravel the mechanism of
electroweak symmetry breaking and the origin of particle masses. In this
context the Standard Model of particle physics predicts the existence of a
so far undiscovered particle - the Higgs boson - which plays the role of a
quantum excitation of the Higgs field that fills space and time with an
omnipresent vacuum expectation value. Interaction with this vacuum
expectation value lends particles their masses. In this talk the basic
search strategy for the Higgs boson at the LHC is reviewed with an emphasis
on the theoretical predictions for the Higgs signal and background
processes, needed in the experimental analysis.