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We consider the Higgs boson decay processes and its production, and provide a parameterisation tailored for testing models of new physics beyond the Standard Model. We also compare our formalism to other existing parameterisations based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Aldo Deandrea , Guillaume Drieu La Rochelle , Jean-Baptiste Flament

The statistical procedure used in the search for the Higgs boson is investigated in this paper. A Bayesian hierarchical model is proposed that uses the information provided by the theory in the analysis of the data generated by the particle…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-10 Shirin Golchi , Richard Lockhart

The observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson at the LHC, reported by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, is a milestone in the quest to understand electroweak symmetry breaking. The evidence at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-07-29 Carlos A. Solans Sánchez

After a brief introduction to the theoretical basis of the Higgs mechanism for generating the masses of elementary particles, the experimental searches for Higgs particles will be summarized, from bounds at LEP to inferences for LHC. The…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 W. -D. Schlatter , P. M. Zerwas

In view of the absence of any direct sign of New Physics (NP) at the LHC, the precise investigation of the Higgs properties becomes more and more important in our quest for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Coupling measurements play…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-10 M. Muhlleitner

In this paper we give the outline of a lecture given to undergraduate students aiming at understanding why physicists are so much interested in the Higgs boson. The lecture has been conceived for students not yet familiar with advanced…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Giovanni Organtini

I present a concise review of the Higgs problem which plays a central role in particle physics today. The Higgs of the minimal Standard Model is so far just a conjecture that needs to be verified or discarded at the LHC. Probably the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Guido Altarelli

We have reached a new era of particle physics in which the properties of the Higgs boson, in particular its mass, turned into precision observables. Therefore, it is necessary to have accurate predictions of these properties in models for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Florian Staub

Statistical tools have been developed to quantify the agreement between a hypothesis or a model and the observed data for probabilistic phenomena. In this work, we define statistical methods used to measure the properties of the higgs boson…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Abdeljalil Habjia

We argue that the hierarchy problem of the standard model of particle physics can be solved by adding a state-dependent term to the Higgs sector. We present an example of a scalar field with a Higgs-like potential with an additional term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

A mathematical model of the cosmological evolution of statistical systems of scalarly charged particles with Higgs scalar interaction is formulated and investigated. Examples are given of numerical modeling of such systems, revealing their…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, testing the many possible extensions to the Standard Model has become a key challenge in particle physics. This paper discusses a new method for predicting the compatibility of new physics theories…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Juan Rocamonde , Louie Corpe , Gustavs Zilgalvis , Maria Avramidou , Jon Butterworth

In this review, we discuss methods of parsing direct and indirect information from collider experiments regarding the Higgs boson and describe simple ways in which experimental likelihoods can be consistently reconstructed and interfaced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-20 Aleksandr Azatov , Jamison Galloway

Nobody knows exactly what kind of Higgs physics will be unveiled when the Large Hadron Collider is turned on. There could be one Standard Model Higgs boson or five Higgs bosons as is the case in two-Higgs-doublet models; there could be more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Drollinger

Any new scalar fields that perturbatively solve the hierarchy problem by stabilizing the Higgs mass also generate new contributions to the Higgs field-strength renormalization, irrespective of their gauge representation. These new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-25 Nathaniel Craig , Christoph Englert , Matthew McCullough

In this proceedings contribution, I briefly summarize various aspects that are important in the discussions of new physics searches with novel scalar states, at current and future colliders. In particular, I give a brief glance on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-07 Tania Robens

Old and new ideas regarding Higgs physics are reviewed. We first summarize the quadratic divergence / hierarchy problem which strongly suggests that the SM Higgs sector will be supplemented by new physics at high scales. We next consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 John F. Gunion

Detection of a signal in one of the standard LHC Higgs search channels does not guarantee that the particle discovered is the Standard Model (SM) Higgs. In this talk I survey some general classes of alternatives and ways to tell them apart.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-17 Heather E. Logan

A study and numerical modeling of the cosmological evolution of a classical scalar field with the Higgs potential was carried out. Based on the formulated similarity properties of cosmological models, their main characteristics are studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Yu. G. Ignat'ev , A. R. Samigullina

Examining the Higgs sector at high energy scales through off-shell Higgs production can potentially shed light on the naturalness problem of the Higgs mass. We propose such a study at the LHC by utilizing a representative model with a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Dorival Goncalves , Tao Han , Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay