On the Trail of the Higgs Boson

Abstract

I review theoretical issues associated with the Higgs boson and the mystery of spontaneous breaking of the electroweak gauge symmetry. This essay is intended as an introduction to the special issue of Annalen der Physik, "Particle Physics after the Higgs".

30 pages, 5 figures; v2 incorporates useful suggestions of the referees; v3 corrects (some) residual typos

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• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
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• Top-quark mass measurement in the all-hadronic $t\bar{t}$ decay channel at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Neutral Triple Vector Boson Production in Randall-Sundrum Model at the LHC
• Searching for New Physics in Semi-Leptonic Baryon Decays
• Polarization in (quasi-)two-body decays and new physics
• Exponentiating Higgs
• Higgs boson form factor effects in $t\bar{t}$ production by $W^{-}{W}^{+}$ and $ZZ$ fusion
• Test of the triple Higgs boson form factor in ${\mu }^{-}{\mu }^{+}\to HH$
• Tests of Higgs boson compositeness through the HHH form factor
• Strong, Random field behavior of the Euclidean Dirac propagator
• The Higgs boson structure functions as signposts of new physics
• Higgs Potential from Wick Rotation in Conformal BSM