19–21 Apr 2017
Trieste - Italia
Europe/Rome timezone
Proceedings: Il Nuovo Cimento C, Vol. 41, N. 1-2, 2018 : https://www.sif.it/riviste/sif/ncc/econtents/2018/041/01-02

Study of the decays of the Higgs boson to boson pairs at Run-II with the ATLAS experiment

19 Apr 2017, 15:35
15m
Aula Magna - Edificio H3 (Trieste - Italia)

Aula Magna - Edificio H3

Trieste - Italia

Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Valerio nº 12/2 I-34127 Trieste (TS)
Oral contribution Sessione Frontiera Energia Sessione Frontiera Energia

Speaker

Marco Sessa (ROMA3)

Description

The Higgs boson plays an important role in the Standard Model: it provides mass to the elementary particles through the electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking (EWSB). Discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, today the Higgs boson is a very powerful tool to test the validity of SM theory at the TeV scale. The Higgs boson can be produced at proton-proton colliders, such as LHC, in different ways and many decay channels are predicted by the SM. At ATLAS Run-2, this particle is widely studied mainly through its decays in vectors boson pairs (H→ZZ, H→WW and H→ γγ ). In this context, the latest results, obtained using the dataset collected by the ATLAS experiment during 2015 and 2016 at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV, are presented. Experimental techniques and estimate of the main backgrounds will be discussed in detail.

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