High Energy Physics Seminars

New physics searches at the LHC using Higgs bosons

by Dr. Devdatta Majumder (University of Kansas)

Monday, December 17, 2018 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR, Mumbai ( AG-66 )
Description
Now that a Higgs boson has been discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it serves as a useful tool in the discovery of physics beyond the standard model (BSM). In this talk, I will present searches for BSM physics using pairs of Higgs bosons with LHC data collected by the CMS experiment. Several BSM signatures predict Higgs bosons with large Lorentz boosts and special reconstruction and identification techniques are used to distinguish these from background events. I will review the identification methods used for reconstructing boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark–antiquark pairs. I will conclude with remarks on how new measurements are being made possible using boosted Higgs bosons, and the prospects for new physics searches at the high luminosity LHC.