Speaker
Dr
Thomas Rizzo
(SLAC)
Description
Simplified models provide a useful tool to conduct the search and exploration of physics
beyond the Standard Model in a model-independent fashion. In this work we consider the
complementarity of indirect searches for new physics in Higgs couplings and distributions
with direct searches for new particles, using a simplified model which includes a new singlet
scalar resonance and vector-like fermions that can mix with the SM top-quark. We fit
this model to the combined ATLAS and CMS 125 GeV Higgs production and coupling
measurements and other precision electroweak constraints, and explore in detail the effects
of the new matter content upon Higgs production and kinematics. We highlight some novel
features and decay modes of the top partner phenomenology, and discuss prospects for Run
II.
Primary author
Dr
Thomas Rizzo
(SLAC)
