8th LNF Mini-workshop series: Challenges in Higgs Phenomenology

A few months ago the two LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS announced that they had independently discovered a previously undetected particle, of mass about 125 GeV, whose phenomenology is close to the one predicted by the Standard Model for the Higgs boson. The analysis of new data has confirmed this observation and allowed the first measurement of the Higgs properties, such as its mass, spin and couplings. From the theoretical viewpoint, the evidence of a Higgs with a 125 GeV mass strongly constrains the New Physics models proposed to solve the Standard Model drawbacks, such as the hierarchy problem. Furthermore, the existing calculations and Monte Carlo codes for the Standard Model Higgs signals and backgrounds have been continuously improved. The Mini-workshop `Challenges in Higgs phenomenology' will address the above issues and the recent results on the Higgs boson searches at 7 and 8 TeV will be presented by both CMS and ATLAS collaborations. On the theoretical side, special attention will be paid to Higgs production in vector boson fusion and to the role played by the inclusion of higher-order radiative corrections.