Speaker
Laura Reina
(Florida State University (US))
Description
The available information on the properties of the observed Higgs signal is assessed in view
of the current experimental accuracy and the employed theoretical assumptions. Possible
interpretations of the observed signal in scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model are
discussed in view of their phenomenological implications, and the experimental sensitivity
for discriminating between different models is investigated. In extended Higgs sectors it
is often possible to interpret the observed signal not only in terms of the lightest but also
in terms of the second-lightest state of the Higgs sector. The latter scenarios generically
predict a light Higgs boson with heavily suppressed couplings to gauge bosons. The current
limits and future prospects for accessing such scenarios will be discussed.
We also present results of a bayesian fit to the Wilson coefficients of the Standard Model gauge
invariant dimension-6 operators involving one or more Higgs fields.
Authors
Enrico Franco
(INFN Rome)
Laura Reina
(Florida State University (US))
Luca Silvestrini
(INFN Rome)
Marco Ciuchini
(Universita di Roma Tre and INFN)
Maurizio Pierini
(California Institute of Technology (US))
SATOSHI MISHIMA
(INFN Rome)
