LHCP 2013 - First Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference

Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a pair of b-­‐quarks

Not scheduled

20m

Hotel Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona - Spain

Experiment Poster

Speaker

Kevin Michael Mercurio (Harvard University (US))

Description

With  the  observation  of  a  new  particle  of  mass  125  GeV  decaying  to  a  pair  of  photons,  W   bosons   or   Z   bosons,   the   current   critical   question   in   the   field   of   particle   physics   is   whether   this   particle   is   the   Standard   Model   Higgs   boson   or   something   else.   Observing   the   decay   of   the   new   particle   to   fermions   and   in   particular   b-­‐quarks   is   vital   to   answer   these   questions.   We   present   the   latest   results   from   the   ATLAS   experiment   in   the   search   for   a   Higgs   boson   produced   in   association   with   a   vector   boson   and   decaying   to   pairs   of   b-­‐quarks  using  the  2011  and  2012  datasets.