Lectures on Higgs Boson Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond

Abstract

These lectures focus on the structure of various Higgs boson theories. Topics in the first lectures include: mass generation in chiral theories, spontaneous symmetry breaking, neutrino masses, perturbative unitarity, vacuum stability, vacuum alignment, flavor changing neutral current solutions with multiple Higgs doublets, analysis of type I theory with Z2 symmetry, and rephasing symmetries. After an Essay on the Hierarchy Problem, additional topics are covered that more directly relate to naturalness of the electroweak theory. Emphasis is on their connection to Higgs boson physics. Topics in these later lectures include: supersymmetry, supersymmetric Higgs sector in the Runge basis, leading-order radiative corrections of supersymmetric light Higgs boson mass, theories of extra dimensions, and radion mixing with the Higgs boson in warped extra dimensions. And finally, one lecture is devoted to Higgs boson connections to the hidden sector.

71 pages, Delivered at Cambridge University and University of Liverpool, British Universities Summer School (BUSSTEPP 2008 & 2009)

References in corpus (3)

• A Supersymmetry Primer
• Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP
• Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Building and testing models with extended Higgs sectors
• Constraining Flavour Symmetries At The EW Scale II: The Fermion Processes
• The Half-composite Two Higgs Doublet Model and the Relaxion
• The theoretical physics ecosystem behind the discovery of the Higgs boson
• Lectures on Naturalness, String Landscape and Multiverse
• SuperCool Inflation: A Graceful Exit from Eternal Inflation at LHC Scales and Below
• Concluding Talk: A Theorist Overview on Particle Physics
• Scalar and gauge sectors in the 3-Higgs Doublet Model under the S3-symmetry