TASI 2013 lectures on Higgs physics within and beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

These lectures start with a detailed pedagogical introduction to electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model, including gauge boson and fermion mass generation and the resulting predictions for Higgs boson interactions. I then survey Higgs boson decays and production mechanisms at hadron and $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders. I finish with two case studies of Higgs physics beyond the Standard Model: two-Higgs-doublet models, which I use to illustrate the concept of minimal flavor violation, and models with isospin-triplet scalar(s), which I use to illustrate the concept of custodial symmetry.

48 pages, 25 figures, comments welcome. v2: fixed nonstandard convention for SU(2) generators T+/T- (changes in Eqs. 46, 47, 51, 163, 164, and 165). v3: fixed a typo in footnote 8

References in corpus (7)

• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
• Constraining the Higgs boson width with ZZ production at the LHC
• Constraints on the Higgs boson width from off-shell production and decay to Z-boson pairs
• Higgs Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Planning Study
• Bounding the Higgs Boson Width Through Interferometry
• Expected Precision of Higgs Boson Partial Widths within the Standard Model

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• Building and testing models with extended Higgs sectors
• Lattice tests of beyond Standard Model dynamics
• Electroweak Sphaleron with Dimension-6 Operators
• Restricting the parameter space of Type-II Two Higgs Doublet Models with CP violation