The Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking mechanism The Higgs boson hunting at LEP and Tevatron
Discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC Measurements: mass, spin, couplings
Elementary Particle Physics:
theory and experiments
Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs
Follow the course/slides from M. A. Thomson lectures at Cambridge University and lectures by M. Kado and M. Martinez at HASCO schools.
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The ATLAS detector
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The Higgs Boson at the LHC
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Shown here results based on Run I
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The first LHC run
Local p 0
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Birth of a particle
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Higgs-like particle – 4 July 2012
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Higgs-like particle – 4 July 2012
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H-> gg: events signature
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Shower shapes and vertex reconstr.
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H-> gg: background rejection
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The golden channel: H->ZZ, Z->ll
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Signal and background
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Higgs like signal with 7 TeV and 8 TeV data
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Mass measurement
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And since then ….
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And since then …
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Which Higgs boson we have discovered?
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Entrance of the Higgs into PDG
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How we can recognize spin?
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Spin observables for H-> gg
Spin study with H->4l
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Higgs boson decay width
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What do we measure?
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Higgs boson decay channels
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Overall comparison of all couplings results
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Combination of two experiments
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The global signal strength
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Signal strength by production and decay mode
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Constrains on three-level Higgs couplings
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Concluding Higgs couplings measurements
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What do we know from Run I
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Run II : Higgs boson mass
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Run II : Higgs boson couplings
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Run II : Higgs boson couplings to fermions
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Higgs boson couplings to top quarks
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Higgs boson production modes
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Production and decay modes
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Couplings vs mass
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ATLAS combination
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Probing rare Higgs decays
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The Higgs and the LHC
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Summary
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