HE Seminar
Speaker: Lidija Zivkovic
Title: Closing in on the Higgs boson
Host: Mike Mulhearn
Room: 416
Abstract:
The Standard Model describes the unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions. It has been thoroughly tested over the past forty years, and represents one of the major successes of modern physics. This theory predicted the existence and the masses of the weak bosons. The last remaining piece of the puzzle is the Higgs boson whose existence is crucial for our understanding of the origin of particle masses.
I will discuss searches for the SM Higgs boson with the D0 experiment at the Tevatron, highlighting the most important techniques. I will also draw a parallel with current and future searches at the LHC, showing what we can learn from our Tevatron experience. I will emphasize the future direction of the LHC experiments in light of a discovery consistent with the signature of the Higgs boson.
