Golf: Discovery through time: The Once and Future Higgs boson

  • Starts: 3:30 pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
  • Ends: 4:30 pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The Noble-Prize-winning discovery of the Higgs Boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 provided evidence of the mechanism by which subatomic particles acquire their mass and completed the Standard Model of particle physics. Since the discovery, the LHC experiments have intensively studied the properties of the Higgs bosons and used it as a probe to search for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Using LHC Run 2 data we constrained non-SM interactions of the Higgs boson and the top quark. With Run 3 data we are now searching for the production of a pair of Higgs bosons to probe the Higgs potential and look for evidence of non-SM interactions of the Higgs bosons. I will highlight some recent results with the existing data and plans for the larger dataset being collected. I will also talk about the development of novel detectors to be installed in the CMS experiment later this decade that will enable an order of magnitude increase in the data recorded in the coming years, providing unprecedented sensitivity to the properties of the Higgs boson.
Location:
RKC 101
Speaker
Frank Golf
Institution
Boston University
Host
Joe Larkin/Jim Miller