Exotic Higgs Decays Meeting

7 Nov 2016, 09:00 → 8 Nov 2016, 19:00 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

Monday, 7 November

1 Welcome

2 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

3 Monte Carlo simulation of heavy flavor production

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

MC_Hoeche.pdf

4 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 Coffee break

5 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

6 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

7 Exotic higgs decays in models with "Natural" Neutrinos

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

RHN.pdf

8 Searches for lepton jets at the LHC

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

Leptonjets_HiggsCoupling_Nov2016_Safonov.pdf

12:35 Lunch

9 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

10 Neutral naturalness: phenomenology

Speaker: David Curtin (University of Maryland)

davidcurtin_neutral_naturalness-exotic_higgs_decays-pheno_SLACexotichiggsworkshop_7nov2016_25m_v1.key.pdf

11 New ideas for Displaced Higgs

Speaker: Eric Kuflik

Displaced.SLAC.pdf

12 Searching for New Physics with Displaced Vertex signatures in the ATLAS Detector

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

HL_SLAC_presentation.pdf

15:40 Coffee break

13 Considerations for displaced higgs searches at CMS

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

Antonelli_EXOHiggs_Nov7.pdf

14 Prospects for Higgs decays to Ultra-long-lived particles

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

SLACworkshop.pdf

15 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

Tuesday, 8 November

16 Flavorful Higgs bosons

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

altmannshofer_SLAC.pdf

17 Searches for Higgs flavor violating couplings at ATLAS and CMS

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

2016_11_08_ExoticsHiggs.pdf

18 Searches for Higgs boson decays to a meson and a photon

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

20161107_kn_SLAC.pdf

10:15 Coffee break

19 Light quark Yukawa couplings from Higgs kinematics

Speaker: Yotam Soreq (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Exotic_Higgs_2016_YS.pdf

20 Probing Higgs couplings to light quarks

Speaker: Emmanuel Stamou (Weizmann Institute of Science)

higgscouplings2016.pdf

21 Rare electroweak-type Higgs decays

Speaker: Gino Isidori (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

HiggsRare_SLAC.pdf

22 Exclusive Radiative Higgs Decays in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Stefan Alte (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

ExoticHiggs_Alte.pdf

12:15 Lunch

23 Searches for invisible Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (CERN)

nckw_WG3_SLAC_hinv_cms.pdf

24 Exotic Higgs Decays With Photons and MET

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

ExoticHiggs_gMET.pdf

25 Displaced quarkonia as a new physics probe

Speaker: Hou Keong Lou (Princeton University)

quarkonia_higgs_final_split.pdf

26 The Dark Light Higgs scenario and semi-visible exotic Higgs decays

Speaker: Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

FY_DLH.pdf

27 Higgs Connections to Dark Vectors

Speaker: David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

hdark-slac.pdf

15:50 Coffee break

28 Rare and Exotic Higgs Decay Prospects at the HL-LHC

Speaker: Allison Mccarn

HLLHC_Nov8_v3.pdf

29 Exotic Higgs Decay at future lepton colliders

Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

ExoticHiggsDecays_SLAC_ZhenLiu_2016.pdf

30 Discussion session

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

DiscussionSessionII-3.pdf