Exploring the Higgs Boson at the LHC

by Dr Florian Goertz (CERN)

Wednesday 8 Jul 2015, 08:00 → 09:00 Europe/Paris

Grande Salle du Conseil (LPSC)

After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we want to access its properties as exact as possible in order to further improve our understanding of how electroweak symmetry is broken in nature. In particular, we hope to find signs for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) that can address its shortcomings. In this talk I will on the one hand discuss options to get a handle on the parameters of the Higgs sector, such as its self interactions and Yukawa couplings, that will help us to understand its nature in a general framework. On the other hand, I will study the impact of concrete BSM Higgs models, like setups where the Higgs boson is a composite state, on LHC observables and vice versa, addressing options to resolve emerging tensions of such models with LHC data.