Speaker
Oscar Cata
(LMU)
Description
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC strongly validates the Standard Model as the low-energy theory of the electroweak interactions. However, the nature of the mechanism triggering electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) remains unresolved, all the more so since no traces of new physics have been detected so far. In this talk Oscar will discuss the possibility that EWSB is driven by a strongly-coupled new physics sector, and how this would manifest itself at low energies. In particular, he will cover in considerable detail the systematics (and subtleties) of the EFT associated with these scenarios. As applications, Oscar will discuss gauge-boson pair production and h -> Z e+e- up to next leading order.
