From Science to Innovation: Argonne National Laboratory Overview

The Standard Model of particle physics, which has been remarkably successful at predicting physical phenomena on a very wide range of energy scales, contains at its core a broken symmetry.  The broken electroweak symmetry, in which the weak bosons become massive while photons do not, is crucial to the very different observable behaviour of electromagnetism and the weak force.  In the Standard Model, the spontaneous breaking of this symmetry is expected to yield a fundamental scalar particle: the Higgs boson.  The Higgs boson has not been observed to date, despite searches at many colliders.  In this talk, I will review the role of the Higgs in the Standard Model, the signatures for its production and decay at the LHC, and the accelerator and detector technology used to search for Higgs production event.  I will then present the most recent results from the LHC which provide the highest sensitivity ever over a wide mass range.