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Description
In this talk, I will discuss the production of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs Boson and its subsequent decays into hadrons (e.g. b-quarks) at the LHC and future colliders. The SM Higgs Boson, due to its long lifetime compared to electroweak gauge bosons and the top quarks, decays outside the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Therefore, its hadronic decays may experience little or no screening from the hot and dense QGP while jets from hard scattering processes and from decays of the electro-weak gauge bosons and the top-quark suffer significant energy loss. This distinction can lead to enhanced signal to background ratios in hadronic decay channels. Thus, using Higgs Boson production in Heavy-Ion Collisions may provide alternative ways to probe 1) the Yukawa coupling of the Higgs Boson to the bottom quark 2) Higgs Boson trilinear self-couplings, 3) Higgs Boson lifetime and 4) New physics where new resonances decay into Higgs boson pairs. Finally, studies of Higgs Boson interactions with the patrons forming the QGP medium may improve our understanding of the properties of the QGP.
