Particle Physics in Birmingham

Particle Physics Seminar

Wednesday 15th October 2014 at 13:30
Poynting Small Lecture Theatre

(tea, coffee and biscuits served at 13:15)

The Search with ATLAS for Higgs Decays to Beauty

Paul Thompson (Birmingham University)


Abstract

I present recent final results on the search for the $b\bar{b}$ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson performed by the ATLAS experiment using the full dataset recorded at the LHC in Run 1. The production process studied is associated (W/Z)H production. I will then present the prospects of the analysis for the upcoming Run 2 dataset. A brief review on using the same final state to search for non-Standard Model Higgs bosons will also be given.