Seminars

Fabrizio Caola - QCD predictions for Higgs phenomenology at the LHC

by Dr Fabrizio Caola (CERN/IPPP)

Europe/Rome
Aula B (Roma3 - Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica)

Aula B

Roma3 - Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica

Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma https://goo.gl/maps/KetAkanHyAU2
Description
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) set a milestone in our understanding of fundamental interactions. Studying the properties of the new particle is now one of the major goals of the LHC program. These investigations require very precise theoretical predictions for signal and background processes, able to reliably model the complex experimental environment of hadronic collisions. In this talk, I will highlight some of the recent progress towards more accurate theoretical predictions by discussing two examples: Higgs boson production in association with an extra jet and the Higgs transverse momentum distribution, and off-shell Higgs production. After motivating their role in Higgs characterization, I will briefly review the theoretical advances which led to a better description of these processes and discuss their phenomenological implications for LHC analysis.
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