Higgs Physics

TL;DR

The discovery of the Higgs boson has opened new avenues for exploring electroweak symmetry breaking and potential physics beyond the Standard Model through detailed measurements of Higgs production and decay.

Contribution

This paper discusses how Higgs boson measurements provide insights into electroweak symmetry breaking and the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Higgs boson production and decay rates are key probes of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Precise measurements can reveal deviations indicating new physics.

The Higgs boson serves as a window into high-energy frontier physics.

Abstract

The cause of the screening of the weak interactions at long distances puzzled the high-energy community for more nearly half a century. With the discovery of the Higgs boson a new era started with direct experimental information on the physics behind the breaking of the electroweak symmetry. This breaking plays a fundamental role in our understanding of particle physics and sits at the high-energy frontier beyond which we expect new physics that supersedes the Standard Model. The Higgs boson (inclusive and differential) production and decay rates offer a new way to probe this frontier.