Living with a pre-teen Higgs boson: twelve years with the Higgs boson, and the next twelve years

by Marco Delmastro (LAPP Annecy)

Wednesday 8 May 2024, 11:15 → 12:45 Europe/Zurich

Ecole de physique

In 2024 the Higgs boson will turn twelve, its discovery having been announced on 4 July 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in Geneva. The announcement of the discovery twelve years ago, although widely awaited by the international scientific community, represented a real turning point in elementary particle physics and in the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern our universe. Why is the Higgs boson not simply “another particle”, but represents something much more fundamental? What have we learned about the Higgs boson in twelve years, and what remains to be done? The seminar will try to answer these questions, presenting an overview of the current understanding of the Higgs sector of the Standard Model, and proposing a roadmap for the measurements to come at the future runs of the LHC.