Particle Physics at the LHC - SS13

Scheduled seminar talks:

• 19.6. Arne Gross: Higgs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking
• 26.6. S.Dittmaier: Predictions for Higgs production and decay at the LHC
• 3.7. Lynn Meissner: Electroweak gauge-boson scattering at the LHC
• 10.7. Marco Zimmermann: Discovery of a Higgs-like particle with ATLAS at the LHC
• 17.7. M.Schumacher: Investigation of the properties of the Higgs-like particle at the LHC

Proposed topics:

Theory

Dittmaier:

• Higgs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking 
• Higgs production at the LHC 
• Vector-boson scattering WW->WW 
• other topics
  

Experiment

Schumacher:

• Search for Higgs bosons at small masses, specifically H-->tautau
• Search for Higgs bosons in models beyond the SM 
• Search for supersymmetric particles
  
• other topics
  

Formalities & requirements for Academic Record

• Oral part: talk of ca. 45min (i.e. ca. 2 talks per session) 
• Written part: essay summarizing the talk
  
• First organisatorial meetings: Fr, 27.4.+4.5.12, 2pm ct; room: HS 1