J. Zupan: Higgs: a new window to new physics

by Jure Zupan (Cincinatti)

Monday 16 Dec 2013, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

The recently discovered Higgs-like state at the LHC stands out because it is the only spin zero particle in the structure of the standard model. As a consequence it can act as a portal to new physics through either completely unsupressed or least suppressed operators. Phenomenologically, the effects can be large and can appear in the form of flavor violating higgs decays, CP violating higgs couplings, Higgs mediated dark matter interactions and deviations from the standard model electroweak symmetry breaking predictions.