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Winter, 2017                                                  Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

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Reading Material

Unification

PRIMARY STUDY MATERIALS:

ELECTROWEAK MODEL AND CONSTRAINTS ON NEW PHYSICS
Particle Data Group

STATUS OF HIGGS BOSON PHYSICS
Particle Data Group

SUPERSYMMETRY, PART I (THEORY)
Particle Data Group

SUPERSYMMETRY, PART II (EXPERIMENT)
Particle Data Group


Recent experimental results

Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H -> gamma gamma and H -> ZZ* -> 4 leptons channels with the ATLAS detector using 25 fb-1 of pp collision data
ATLAS Collaboration
arXiv:1406.3827 (2014)

Updated coupling measurements of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector using up to 25/fb of proton-proton collision data
ATLAS Collaboration
ATLAS-CONF-2014-009 (2014)

Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data
ATLAS Collaboration
Phys. Lett. B 726 (2013) 120

Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and studies of the compatibility of its couplings with the standard model
The CMS Collaboration
CMS PAS HIG-14-009 (2014)

Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM
ATLAS Collaboration
JHEP 10 (2015) 134


Discovery experimental results

A Particle Consistent with the Higgs Boson Observed with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Collaboration
Science 338, pp. 1576-1582 (2012).

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
The ATLAS Collaboration
Phys. Lett. B 716, 1 (2012)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214

A New Boson with a Mass of 125 GeV Observed with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
The CMS Collaboration
Science 338, 1569-1575 (2012).

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
The CMS Collaboration
Phys. Lett. B 716, 30 (2012)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7235


Theory

Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Sally Dawson
Lectures given at the XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields, 2-11 October, 2008, Sonora, Mexico
AIP Conf.Proc.1116:11-34,2009
http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2190

Unanswered Questions in the Electroweak Theory
Chris Quigg
Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.59:505-555,2009
http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3187

Unanswered Questions in the Higgs Bosons, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, and the Physics of the Large Hadron Collider
Chris Quigg
Contemp.Phys.48:1-11,2007
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2045

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: status/directions
Alex Pomarol
PoS ICHEP 2012 (2013) 030

Supersymmetry in Elementary Particle Physics
Michael Peskin
Lectures presented at the 2006 TASI summer school
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1928

Beyond the Standard Model
J. Lliopoulos
Lectures presented at 2007 European School of High-Energy Physics
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1143385/files/p139.pdf

Dark Matter and Particle Physics
Michael Peskin
J.Phys.Soc.Jap.76:111017,2007
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1928


Additional Study Materials:

The Anatomy of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking I: The Higgs Boson in the Standard Model
Abdelhak Djouadi
Phys.Rept.457:1-216,2008
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0503172

The Anatomy of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking. II: The Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model
Abdelhak Djouadi
Phys.Rept.459:1-241,2008
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0503173

Beyond the Standard Model : supersymmetry
I. Antoniadis
Lectures presented at 2008 European School of High-Energy Physics
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1183648/files/p157.pdf

Particle Data Group Tables and Reports
http://pdg.lbl.gov/