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TASI 2013 lectures on Higgs physics within and beyond the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

These lectures start with a detailed pedagogical introduction to electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model, including gauge boson and fermion mass generation and the resulting predictions for Higgs boson interactions. I then survey Higgs boson decays and production mechanisms at hadron and e+ee^+e^- colliders. I finish with two case studies of Higgs physics beyond the Standard Model: two-Higgs-doublet models, which I use to illustrate the concept of minimal flavor violation, and models with isospin-triplet scalar(s), which I use to illustrate the concept of custodial symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1786,
  title  = {TASI 2013 lectures on Higgs physics within and beyond the Standard Model},
  author = {Heather E. Logan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1786},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

48 pages, 25 figures, comments welcome. v2: fixed nonstandard convention for SU(2) generators T+/T- (changes in Eqs. 46, 47, 51, 163, 164, and 165). v3: fixed a typo in footnote 8