Exotic Higgs Decays Meeting

Nov 7, 2016, 9:00 AM → Nov 8, 2016, 7:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)

This meeting will be succeeded by Higgs Couplings 2016

2016_1107_higgs_conference_group_photo-026_full_res.jpg

Mon, November 7

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome

9:10 AM → 9:35 AM Searches for the Higgs boson decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles

Speaker: Mazin Woodrow Khader (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

H4b_MazinKhader_ExoticsMeeting.pdf

9:35 AM → 10:00 AM Monte Carlo simulation of heavy flavor production

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

MC_Hoeche.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM Multi-photon decays of the SM Higgs with ATLAS: Current results and future prospects

Speaker: James Beacham (Ohio State University (US))

Beacham_ATLAS_Higgs_Multiphoton_SLAC_ExoticHiggs_2016Nov7.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee break

10:55 AM → 11:20 AM Searches for light pseudoscalar boson in the decay of SM Higgs boson at CMS

Speaker: Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State University (US))

lightHiggs_Abdollah_F.pdf

11:20 AM → 11:45 AM Higgs decays to pairs of (pseudo-)scalars at ATLAS in the 2mu 2tau final state

Speaker: Benjamin Eric Kaplan (New York University (US))

Kaplan_ExoticHiggs_7Nov2016.pdf

11:45 AM → 12:10 PM Exotic higgs decays in models with "Natural" Neutrinos

Speaker: Bithika Jain (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))

RHN.pdf

12:10 PM → 12:35 PM Searches for lepton jets at the LHC

Speaker: Alexei Safonov (Texas A & M University (US))

Leptonjets_HiggsCoupling_Nov2016_Safonov.pdf

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:25 PM Exotic Higgs decays in Neutral Naturalness

I will give a brief overview of the possible exotic Higgs decays in models of Neutral Naturalness. This talk serves as the lead-in for the talks by David Curtin and Eric Kuflik.

Speaker: Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

exotic_higgs_in_NN.pdf

2:25 PM → 2:50 PM Neutral naturalness: phenomenology

Speaker: David Curtin (University of Maryland)

davidcurtin_neutral_naturalness-exotic_higgs_decays-pheno_SLACexotichiggsworkshop_7nov2016_25m_v1.key.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:15 PM New ideas for Displaced Higgs

Speaker: Eric Kuflik

Displaced.SLAC.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:40 PM Searching for New Physics with Displaced Vertex signatures in the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Henry Lubatti (University of Washington (US))

HL_SLAC_presentation.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:10 PM Coffee break

4:10 PM → 4:35 PM Considerations for displaced higgs searches at CMS

Speaker: Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US))

Antonelli_EXOHiggs_Nov7.pdf

4:35 PM → 5:00 PM Prospects for Higgs decays to Ultra-long-lived particles

Speaker: John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

SLACworkshop.pdf

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Discussion session

Speakers: Jamie Antonelli (The Ohio State University (US)), Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Yiming Zhong (Stony Brook University)

discussion.pdf

Tue, November 8

9:00 AM → 9:25 AM Flavorful Higgs bosons

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

altmannshofer_SLAC.pdf

9:25 AM → 9:50 AM Searches for Higgs flavor violating couplings at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Shikma Bressler (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

2016_11_08_ExoticsHiggs.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:15 AM Searches for Higgs boson decays to a meson and a photon

Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB))

20161107_kn_SLAC.pdf

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM → 11:10 AM Light quark Yukawa couplings from Higgs kinematics

Speaker: Yotam Soreq (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Exotic_Higgs_2016_YS.pdf

11:10 AM → 11:35 AM Probing Higgs couplings to light quarks

Speaker: Emmanuel Stamou (Weizmann Institute of Science)

higgscouplings2016.pdf

11:35 AM → 12:00 PM Rare electroweak-type Higgs decays

Speaker: Gino Isidori (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

HiggsRare_SLAC.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Exclusive Radiative Higgs Decays in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Stefan Alte (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

ExoticHiggs_Alte.pdf

12:15 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 2:10 PM Searches for invisible Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (CERN)

nckw_WG3_SLAC_hinv_cms.pdf

2:10 PM → 2:35 PM Exotic Higgs Decays With Photons and MET

Speaker: Rafael Teixeira De Lima (Northeastern University (US))

ExoticHiggs_gMET.pdf

2:35 PM → 3:00 PM Displaced quarkonia as a new physics probe

Speaker: Hou Keong Lou (Princeton University)

quarkonia_higgs_final_split.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:25 PM The Dark Light Higgs scenario and semi-visible exotic Higgs decays

Speaker: Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

FY_DLH.pdf

3:25 PM → 3:50 PM Higgs Connections to Dark Vectors

Speaker: David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

hdark-slac.pdf

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM → 4:45 PM Rare and Exotic Higgs Decay Prospects at the HL-LHC

Speaker: Allison Mccarn

HLLHC_Nov8_v3.pdf

4:45 PM → 5:10 PM Exotic Higgs Decay at future lepton colliders

Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

ExoticHiggsDecays_SLAC_ZhenLiu_2016.pdf

5:10 PM → 6:00 PM Discussion session

Speakers: Brian Shuve (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Markus Klute (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Stefania Gori (Cincinnati University)

DiscussionSessionII-3.pdf