Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Boson

Abstract

The first LHC run has confirmed the Standard Model as the correct theory at the electroweak scale, and the existence of a Higgs-like particle associated with the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak gauge symmetry. These lectures overview the present knowledge on the Higgs boson and discuss alternative scenarios of electroweak symmetry breaking which are already being constrained by the experimental data.

Lectures given at the 55th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, 20-28 June 2015. 30 pages, 15 figures

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• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV
• The global electroweak fit at NNLO and prospects for the LHC and ILC
• Light scalar at LHC: the Higgs or the dilaton?
• Status of the Higgs Singlet Extension of the Standard Model after LHC Run 1
• A Higgs-Higgs bound state due to New Physics at a TeV
• Delta r and the W-boson mass in the Singlet Extension of the Standard Model
• $B_{s,d}^0\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ Decays in the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model
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• Low-mass fermiophobic charged Higgs phenomenology in two-Higgs-doublet models
• The Inert Doublet Model and its extensions

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• Exploring high-mass diphoton resonance without new colored states
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