M. Muehlleitner: Higgs Physics at the Large Hadron Collider and Beyond

by Margarete Muehlleitner (KIT)

Wednesday 20 Nov 2013, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

In July 2012 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS announced the discovery of a new scalar particle. Since then its properties have been investigated and strongly suggest it to be the Higgs boson, i.e. the particle related to the Higgs mechanism. So far no new particles have been discovered which could help to clarify the question if it is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model or of extensions beyond the Standard Model, which could be either weakly or strongly interacting. In my talk I will present strategies on how the Higgs sector can be tested at the LHC and beyond. Several observables and related high-precision calculations will be presented in order to pin down the nature of the underlying theory. Interpretations within various beyond the Standard Model scenarios will be investigated.