Higgs Physics

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Physics book series (LNP, volume 844)

Abstract

Understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking—or slightly more specifically deciphering the Higgs mechanism—is the main goal of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. Observing some kind of Higgs boson and studying its properties involves many experimental and theoretical issues focused around understanding hadron collider data and QCD predictions to unprecedented precision. The latter will be the main topic of the second half of this lecture.

Keywords

Higgs Boson Transverse Momentum Gauge Boson Higgs Production Gluon Fusion 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institut für Theoretische PhysikUniversität HeidelbergHeidelbergGermany

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