"SPECIAL PARTICLE SEMINAR: Electroweak Scale Physics at the Electroweak Scale"

 

 

 

 

 

The increased energy and luminosity of Run 2 at the Large Hadron Collider will allow the first definitive experimental investigation of the physics underlying electroweak symmetry breaking  in the Higgs sector.  Utilization of the Higgs boson as a known calibrated source will play a  central role in uncovering this electroweak scale physics.  Measurements of the Higgs boson couplings will provide increasingly sensitive probes for Higgs boson mixing with other vacuum states without quantum numbers in the Higgs sector.  Measurements of Higgs boson decay to di-boson final states will supplant traditional precision electroweak measurements as the most sensitive probes of the polarizability of the Higgs condensate.  Direct searches for vacuum states that decay to Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons will provide complimentary tests for extended Higgs sectors.  Special Higgs tagging techniques will also improve sensitivity to partner particles of Higgs sector bosons with electroweak scale masses and interactions, such as the Higgsino superpartners in supersymmetric theories.