====== Finding the Light, Hidden Higgs ======
Date:
Mar. 7-8, 2008
Location:
University of California Davis
Building:


===== Abstract: ===== Precision electroweak constraints favor a Higgs with a mass near 100 GeV, but searches at LEP and the Tevatron have so far found no evidence for it. It is possible that the Higgs is lighter than the LEP bound of 114 GeV for the Standard Model Higgs because non-standard decays or couplings have prevented it from appearing in standard searches. This workshop will explore the prospects for detecting such a "hidden" Higgs. Topics include decays to 4 b, 4 tau, missing energy + X, multijets, and also suppressed Higgs production.
Higgs in a haystack
===== Program ===== Friday March 7 {{program>ul}} {{program>2008:mar;9:00-10:45;Kaplan}} {{program>li;10:45-11:30; Discussion}} {{program>2008:mar;11:30-12:00;Dermisek}} {{program>li;12:00-12:30; Discussion}} {{program>li;12:30-2:00; Lunch}} {{program>2008:mar;2:00-2:45; Pilkington}} {{program>li;2:45-3:15; Discussion}} {{program>2008:mar;3:15-4:00; Chang}} {{program>li;4:00-4:15; Coffee break}} {{program>li;4:15-5:00; Continuation of moderated discussion}} {{program>li;7:00;Dinner Bodega Espanola Aioli, 808 2nd Street in Davis}} {{program>/ul}} Saturday March 8 {{program>ul}} {{program>2008:mar;9:00-10:15;Conway}} {{program>li;10:15-11:30; coffee break}} {{program>2008:mar;10:30-11:30; Gunion}} {{program>li;11:30-1:30; Lunch}} {{program>2008:mar;1:30-2:30; Mellado}} {{program>2008:mar;2:30-3:30; Erbacher}} {{program>li;3:30-3:45; Coffee break}} {{program>li;3:45-5:00; Discussion/ Summary talk}} {{program>/ul}} ---- ===== Suggested reading: ===== *[[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ex/pdf/0206/0206022v1.pdf|OPAL note on "model independent" bound]] *[[http://arXiv.org/abs/0705.4387|The NMSSM Solution to the Fine-Tuning Problem]] *[[http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0511250|Naturalness and Higgs Decays in the MSSM with a Singlet]] ===== Participants ===== {{participants>2008:hidden_higgs}}