2010

Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

by Dr Kenneth Herner (University of Michigan)

Pacific/Honolulu
112 (Watanabe Hall)

112

Watanabe Hall

Description
The quest to understand the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important endeavors in high energy physics. The favored symmetry breaking mechanism in the Standard Model, the Higgs mechanism, also provides an explanation for mass generation and implies the existence of an as-yet unobserved particle, the Higgs Boson. We will present an overview of the latest Higgs search strategies and results from the Fermilab Tevatron and discuss the complementary efforts at the LHC, before closing with projections for the Tevatron's final running phase