ILC Higgs White Paper

TL;DR

The ILC Higgs White Paper reviews theoretical models and experimental strategies for Higgs boson studies at the ILC, including measurements of Higgs properties and collider options, to advance understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Higgs physics at the ILC, combining theory and experimental plans, and discusses collider configurations and measurement techniques for Higgs properties.

Findings

Projected precision measurements of Higgs couplings at ILC energies

Feasibility of extracting Higgs total width from collider data

Discussion of gamma-gamma collider option at ILC

Abstract

The ILC Higgs White Paper is a review of Higgs Boson theory and experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). Theory topics include the Standard Model Higgs, the two-Higgs doublet model, alternative approaches to electroweak symmetry breaking, and precision goals for Higgs boson experiments. Experimental topics include the measurement of the Higgs cross section times branching ratio for various Higgs decay modes at ILC center of mass energies of 250, 500, and 1000 GeV, and the extraction of Higgs couplings and the total Higgs width from these measurements. Luminosity scenarios based on the ILC TDR machine design are used throughout. The gamma-gamma collider option at the ILC is also discussed.