The anatomy of electroweak symmetry breaking Tome I: The Higgs boson in the Standard Model

Abdelhak Djouadi (1)

1 LPTA - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules

This review is devoted to the study of the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and this first part focuses on the Higgs particle of the Standard Model. The fundamental properties of the Higgs boson are reviewed and its decay modes and production mechanisms at hadron colliders and at future lepton colliders are described in detail.;[;[GRAPHICS];The decay branching ratios of the Standard Model Higgs boson and its production cross sections in the main channels at the LHC and at a 500 GeV e+e(-) collider. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Mots clés: INTERMEDIATE-MASS HIGGS; GAMMA-GAMMA-COLLISIONS; HEAVY-QUARK PRODUCTION; LOW-ENERGY THEOREMS; SINGLE-TOP-QUARK; VACUUM-POLARIZATION FUNCTIONS; E(+)E(-) LINEAR COLLIDERS; PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS; PHOTON-PHOTON COLLISIONS; HIGHER-ORDER CORRECTIONS

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

Abdelhak Djouadi. The anatomy of electroweak symmetry breaking Tome I: The Higgs boson in the Standard Model. Physics Reports, 2008, 457, pp.1-216. ⟨10.1016/j.physrep.2007.10.004⟩. ⟨hal-00489246⟩