7–10 Apr 2026
Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Higgs decays to Heavy Flavor: H->bb, H->cc, H+b/c, bbH and Heavy-Flavor Tagging.

9 Apr 2026, 11:25
25m
B1 (Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy)

B1

Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy

Lungo Dora Siena 100

Speaker

Angela Zaza (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

Description

The discovery of the Higgs boson ten years ago and successful measurement of the Higgs boson couplings to third generation fermions by ATLAS and CMS mark great milestones for HEP. The much weaker coupling to the second generation quarks predicted by the SM makes the measurement of the Higgs-charm coupling much more challenging. With the full run-2 data collected by the LHC experiments, a lot of progress has been made to constrain this coupling. In this talk, we present the latest results of direct measurements of the Higgs-charm coupling by investigating the Higgs boson decays into bb/cc. The searches for the rare associated productions as c+Higgs, and bb+Higgs will be also discussed. Prospects for future improvements are also given, with particular attention to the experimental tools, like the b/c-quark taggers using advanced techniques. (20' presentation + 5' discussion)

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