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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

Higgs Physics at LHC, Quo Vadis ?

Thursday, April 30, 2015, 16:00
WHGA/Auditorium

Reisaburo Tanaka, LAL Orsay

Abstract:
The quest for the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking is the principal endeavour of the elementary particle physics of today. The Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH) mechanism models the spontaneous breakdown of a gauge symmetry by a self-interacting scalar field. It postulates the existence of a scalar neutral boson, known as Higgs particle, which is also responsible for the origin of mass of elementary particles via Yukawa interaction. After the discovery of the Standard Model-like Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in July 2012, it has been the prime importance to test if the observed signal at mass around 125 GeV has the scalar nature and has the couplings with gauge-bosons and fermions as predicted by the Standard Model. The ATLAS and CMS experiments at LHC have accumulated data corresponding to the integrated luminosity of about 5 fb^-1 at the centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and about 20 fb^-1 at the centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV in RUN-1 at LHC. Principal experimental results on the Standard Model Higgs boson in RUN-1 at LHC will be reported for its mass, width, coupling and spin/CP measurements. Phenomenological issues and prospects for RUN-2 for the Standard Model Higgs boson will be discussed, based upon the activity of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group which is the joint effort among ATLAS, CMS and the theory community.