What the fit is that Boson?

by Michael Robert Trott (CERN)

Thursday 23 Aug 2012, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

We will discuss the rapidly developing area of global fits to the properties of the recently discovered Boson, covering

1. Basic fit methodology and EFT. (i.e. what the fit is going on here?)
2. Current status of the Higgs hypothesis, its evolution in the fits in recent months, and some brief fit scaling prospects.
3. Three applications of interest will be very briefly flashed. Fits to higher dimensional operators, an invisible branching ratio, and Natural SUSY (stops).
4. (+ epsilon) As a bonus, recently developed and lovely stop exclusions in difficult to reach parameter space at colliders (M_chi⁰ >100 GeV) will be shown and justified. Many pretty plots might be seen through clouds of chalk dust. The speaker will attempt to not get overly excited and talk at a reasonable pace, but no guarantees are given.

Paper

• http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.3697
• http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1205.6790
• http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.1717
• http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.7355

Slides collidertalk.pdf