Place and Time

Room: OC218
Time: Thu 11-13

Recommended Lecture Notes

Content of Lecture

Higgs Phenomenology

  • Introduction to the Higgs sector
  • Theoretical constraints on the Higgs Sector
    • Equivalence Theorem
    • Unitarity bound
    • Triviality bound
    • Vacuum Stability
    • ELW precision observables
    • Fine tuning
  • Higgs Decays
  • Higgs Production
  • Beyond the Standard Model Higgs physics
    • Naturalness
    • Higgs boson effective theory
    • Two Higgs doublet model

Recommended Literature

  • An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Pesking & Schroeder
  • The Higgs Hunter's Guide by Gunion & Haber & Kane