Multiple Higgs bosons: the new frontier of LHC

par Dr Mario Pelliccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

vendredi 5 févr. 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium M. Vivargent (LAPP)

With the discovery made in 2012 by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations of a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV a turning point in our understanding of nature was reached. The possible existence of additional Higgs particles is strongly supported by several extensions of current particle physics theory and may well open a new era for fundamental physics. On the other hand, the search for these new particles represent an instrumentation challenge along with an analysis challenge. I will review our current understanding of the Higgs sector in the Standard Model and from there I will present current results on the searches for additional Higgs bosons and discuss the prospects for these measurements in the new data-taking period of the LHC. I will highlight the main experimental requirements needed to perform these analyses, and how the CMS upgrades will impact our ability of tapping this physics potential.