A journey into the quest for the h→bƀ

par Dr Paolo Francavilla (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR))

vendredi 4 mars 2016, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

The observation of an Higgs boson by ATLAS and CMS at the LHC has been a milestone result in particle physics which completed the Standard Model. While all the studied properties agree with the prediction of the Standard Model Higgs boson, no conclusive evidence of the Higgs boson decay to b-quark pairs - h→bƀ - has been obtained yet. The search of h→bƀ is one of the big challenges for the LHC collaborations for the next years, both because the coupling of the Higgs doublet to the quark sector is largely unconstrained experimentally, offering opportunities for BSM physics, and because of the large expected BR - ~58% - which plays a critical role in direct searches of new physics involving the Higgs sector. The status of the search of h→bƀ at the LHC will be reviewed, and examples of BSM searches involving the h→bƀ and prospects for the future will be discussed.