New developments in SM and SUSY Higgs phenomenology

by Oliver Brein (RWTH, Aachen)

Friday 22 Oct 2004, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

The search for Higgs bosons at collider experiments is one major cornerstone in the project to un ravel the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. An overview of Higgs boson production processes at hadron and future electron-positron colliders is given. In particular, the status of the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model, its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM) and the two-Higgs-doublet-model (THDM) is reviewed. Some recent work is presented in more detail: the combination of the NNLO QCD and NLO electroweak corrections to SM Higgs-strahlung at hadron colliders, MSSM neutral Higgs production together with a high-pT hadronic jet, and a charged Higgs production process which may help to discrimi-nate between MSSM and THDM.