Higgs properties at the LHC : implications for the standard model and for cosmology /: implications for the standard model and for cosmology. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jason Tsz Shing Yue.
• Authors: Yue, Jason Tsz Shing
• Contents: Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Preface-The Higgs Discovery; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction -- Realisation of the EW Symmetry in the SM; 1.1 Renormalisability, Unitarity, Gauge Invariances and all that; 1.1.1 Renormalisability; 1.1.2 Unitarity; 1.1.3 SM from Gauge Invariance; 1.2 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism; 1.2.1 Non-linear Realisation; 1.2.2 STU Precision Parameters; 1.2.3 Higgs as Singlet Addition from Unitarity Considerations; References; 2 Spin Determination of the LHC Higgs-Like Resonance; 2.1 Excluding J=1; 2.2 Massive Spin-2. 2.2.1 Couplings to Matter2.3 hZ rightarrowhZ; 2.4 STU Parameters; 2.5 Remarks; References; 3 Probing mathcalCP-violating Top-Yukawa Couplings at the LHC; 3.1 Non-linear Realisation in the Top-Higgs Sector; 3.1.1 Contribution to Loops; 3.2 Bounds on mathcalCP-violating Couplings; 3.2.1 Branching Ratios and Production Cross Sections; 3.2.2 EDM Constraints; 3.3 Polarisation Phenomenology; 3.3.1 Lepton Spin-Correlation; 3.3.2 Single Top Production; 3.4 Higgs Associated with Single Top Production at the LHC ; 3.4.1 Collider Physics at the LHC. 3.4.2 Observability and Lepton Forward-Backward Asymmetry3.5 Remarks; References; 4 Electroweak Phase Transition and Baryogenesis; 4.1 Problems with Electroweak Baryogenesis; 4.2 EW Phase Transition and Effective Potentials; 4.2.1 Tree Level Potential; 4.2.2 One Loop Quantum Corrections; 4.2.3 Finite Temperature Corrections; 4.2.4 Combining Thermal and Quantum Effects; 4.3 Bubble Dynamics; 4.4 B-violation with Sphalerons; 4.5 Charge Transport Scenario; 4.5.1 Source Terms; 4.5.2 Number Densities; 4.5.3 Interaction Rates; 4.5.4 Approximations to Solve the Transport Equations. 4.6 Conversion of nL into nB by Weak Sphalerons4.7 Remarks; References; 5 Conclusions; References; Appendix; A.1 Unitarity; A. 2 hZrightarrowhZ Scattering; A.2.1. s-channel; A.2.2 t-channel; A.3 Decay Form Factors; A.4 Spinor-Helicity Formalism; A.4.1 Massive Case; A.5 Higgs Production Associated with Single Top; A.6 Sphaleron Energy; A.7 mathcalCP-violating Source; A.8 Solving Diffusion Equations; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 539.7/21; Physics; Higgs bosons; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory; Higgs bosons; Physics; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Cosmology; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Science -- Cosmology; Science -- Mathematical Physics; Relativity physics; Mathematical physics; Quantum theory; Science -- Nuclear Physics; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319634029
• Related ISBNs: 331963402X; 9783319634012; 3319634011
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 12, 2017).
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