Finding the Light, Hidden Higgs
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Date: | Mar. 7-8, 2008 |
Location: | University of California Davis |
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Abstract:
Precision electroweak constraints favor a Higgs with a mass near 100 GeV, but searches at LEP and the Tevatron have so far found no evidence for it. It is possible that the Higgs is lighter than the LEP bound of 114 GeV for the Standard Model Higgs because non-standard decays or couplings have prevented it from appearing in standard searches. This workshop will explore the prospects for detecting such a “hidden” Higgs. Topics include decays to 4 b, 4 tau, missing energy + X, multijets, and also suppressed Higgs production.
Program
Friday March 7
- 9:00-10:45 David Kaplan Theory Introduction
- 10:45-11:30 Discussion
- 11:30-12:00 Radovan Dermisek LEP Bounds on the Higgs mp3
- 12:00-12:30 Discussion
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch
- 2:00-2:45 Andrew Pilkington Diffractive Higgs Production mp3
- 2:45-3:15 Discussion
- 3:15-4:00 Spencer Chang Moderated discussion: Higgs -> visible + missing energy mp3
- 4:00-4:15 Coffee break
- 4:15-5:00 Continuation of moderated discussion
- 7:00 Dinner Bodega Espanola Aioli, 808 2nd Street in Davis
Saturday March 8
- 9:00-10:15 John Conway Moderated discussion: Higgs -> 4 taus
- 10:15-11:30 coffee break
- 10:30-11:30 Gunion TBA
- 11:30-1:30 Lunch
- 1:30-2:30 Bruce Mellado Moderated discussion: Model-independent search for Higgs at Atlas
- 2:30-3:30 Robin Erbacher Moderated discussion: New top results and Wjj data sample from Tevatron
- 3:30-3:45 Coffee break
- 3:45-5:00 Discussion/ Summary talk