Higgs Hunting 2025

Jul 15, 2025, 9:00 AM → Jul 17, 2025, 7:00 PM Europe/Paris

100/-1-A900 - Auditorium Joliot Curie (IJCLab)

The origin of Electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the central topics of research in fundamental physics. The discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN on July 4th, 2012, following a hunt that spanned several decades and multiple colliders, changed the landscape of these investigations and provided key evidence for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism of mass generation through the spontaneous breaking of Electroweak symmetry.

More than ten years later, the hunt goes on several fronts, in particular for:

• New physics through precision studies of the properties of the Higgs boson : in particular its mass, spin and couplings to other Standard Model particles.
• New production and decay modes, in particular in processes involving multiple Higgs bosons which provide key insight into the shape of the Higgs potential.
• New Higgs-like states and signals for physics beyond the Standard Model.

The 15th workshop of the « Higgs Hunting » series organized on July 15-17 2025 will present an overview of these topics, focusing in particular on new developments in the LHC Run-2 analyses, detailed studies of Higgs boson properties and possible deviations from Standard Model predictions. Highlights will also include a first look at LHC Run-3 analyses, prospects from studies at future colliders, and recent theoretical developments.

The workshop will be held in person in Orsay, for the first day, and Paris, for the two following days, to continue the Higgs Hunting tradition of lively discussions during and after the sessions. Remote participation will also be made possible for those unable to attend in person. No registration fees are asked for remote participation.

Mary K. Gaillard passed away on 23 May 2025. A major figure in particle theory, she made fundamental contributions to the establishment of the Standard Model. Notably, she achieved a successful determination of the charm quark mass from kaon decays; predicted three-jet events in e+ e- collisions, providing crucial evidence for the existence of gluons; and forecasted the bottom quark mass within the framework of unified theories. She also pioneered systematic studies of Higgs boson production and decay at particle colliders, sketching its first phenomenological profile that launched its experimental hunt. Beyond the Standard Model, Mary K. made numerous and invaluable contributions to Grand Unified Theories and supersymmetric theories, including work on proton decay, supersymmetry breaking, and effective supergravity theories derived from superstrings. The Higgs Hunting workshop was honored to welcome her in 2016 as the speaker for its traditional historical talk than you can see in https://webcast.in2p3.fr/video/historical_talk_gaillard Mary K. spent a substantial portion of her career in France and at CERN, from her doctoral studies in Orsay to the creation of the theoretical physics laboratory LAPTh in Annecy. The Higgs Hunting workshop extends its deepest condolences to her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, and to her family.

 

 

Registration deadline: June 23, 2025

https://www.ville-antony.fr/actualites/interruption-du-rer-b-entre-la-croix-de-berny-et-massy-palaiseau

Access Plan to IJCLab.pdf

Tue, July 15

9:00 AM → 9:55 AM Registration (with coffee and croissants)

9:55 AM → 10:00 AM Prelude from the organizers

Higgs Hunting 2025 Introduction Slides.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary: Theory overview

Convener: Nick Wardle (Imperial College)

10:00 AM Theory overview

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (Universität Zurich)

Thomas-Gehrmann-HiggsHunting_25.pdf

Thomas.mp4

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Topical talks: Part 1

10:45 AM Measurements of the Higgs boson mass and width in CMS

Speaker: Neha Rawal (University of Florida)

Higgs_hunting_15July_nrawal.pdf

Neha.mp4

Abstract Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at LHC in 2012, precision measurements of its properties have been performed intensively. This is crucial for further understanding the Standard Model (SM) as well as to search for beyond the SM physics. This presentation focuses on precision measurements of the Higgs boson mass and total decay width performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS detector during Run 2 of the LHC. It includes analysis strategies and techniques for precise and accurate measurement of the mass and discusses direct measurement of the width from the Higgs resonance peak. We also highlight studies on indirect width measurements which provide a better constraint on its value compared to direct measurements which are limited by the detector resolution.

10:57 AM Constraining the Higgs boson width from Higgs-top Yukawa coupling at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Yangfan Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)

yangfan_HiggsHunting_tH_HiggsWidth_v3.pdf

Zhang.mp4

11:15 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary: Higgs boson properties and couplings

Convener: Nick Wardle (Imperial College)

11:15 AM Higgs boson property measurements (mass, width, CP) - CMS

Speaker: Amrutha Krishna (Northeastern University)

15July25_HH2025_v2.pdf

Krishna.mp4

11:30 AM Higgs boson property measurements (mass, width, CP) - ATLAS

Speaker: Elise Le Boulicaut (Yale University)

Elise.mp4

HiggsPropertiesATLAS_EliseLBE_HiggsHunting_07.15.2025.pdf

11:45 AM Higgs boson coupling measurements - CMS

Speaker: Walaa Elmetenawee (Universita e INFN, Bari)

Walaa.mp4

Walaa_talk_Higgs.pdf

12:00 PM Higgs boson coupling measurements - ATLAS

Speaker: Fábio Lucio Alves (Nanjing University)

Fabio.mp4

higgsHunting2025_fabioAlves_July2025_v3.pdf

12:15 PM Higgs boson properties and couplings - 3-slide overview

Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College London)

Nicholas.mp4

three_slides_nwardle.pdf

12:20 PM Discussion of present status and prospects for coupling and property measurements

Discussion1.mp4

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 2:55 PM Topical talks: Part 2

Convener: Roberto SALERNO (LLR)

2:30 PM Searches for Higgs coupling to charm quarks at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Greta Brianti (Università di Trento)

GBrianti_HiggsHunting.pdf

Greta.mp4

2:42 PM Search for H→cc at the CMS experiment

Speaker: Angela Zaza (Univ. di Bari e Sez. dell'INFN)

Angela.mp4

Zaza-CMS_Hcc_HiggsHunting2025.pdf

Abstract Probing the Higgs boson coupling to second generation quarks, still out of reach, is currently one of the most challenging goals of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations. The CMS collaboration carried out searches for the Higgs boson decay in a charm quark-antiquark pair with data collected during the Run-2 of the LHC (2016-2018), by exploring the Higgs boson associated production with a vector boson (VH) , the gluon fusion (ggF) and the associated production with a top quark-antiquark pair (ttH) production mechanisms. By combining the ttH and VH production mechanisms, CMS set the most stringent constraint to date on the Hcc Yukawa coupling modifier: |kc| < 3.5 (2.7). An overview on the searches for H→cc carried out by the CMS collaboration will be presented in this contribution.

2:55 PM → 3:25 PM Plenary: The Higgs boson self-coupling and the electroweak phase transition

Convener: Roberto SALERNO (LLR)

2:55 PM Footprints of the Electroweak Phase Transition at Colliders

Speaker: Oleksii Matsedonskyi (Cambridge University)

HiggsHunting_2.pdf

Oleksii.mp4

3:25 PM → 4:30 PM Plenary: Higgs boson self-coupling and Di-Higgs production

Convener: Roberto SALERNO (LLR)

3:25 PM Higgs boson self-coupling and Di-Higgs production - ATLAS

Speakers: Lorenzo Santi (CERN), Lorenzo santi (INFN - Roma1)

250712 - Higgs self-coupling and HH measurements - ATLAS.pdf

Lorenzo.mp4

3:40 PM Higgs boson self-coupling and Di-Higgs production - CMS

Speakers: Leonidas Paizanos (University of Cyprus), Leonidas Paizanos (University of Cyprus)

Higgs_Hunting.pdf

Leonidas.mp4

3:55 PM Higgs boson self-coupling and Di-Higgs production: 3-slide overview

Speaker: Roberto SALERNO (LLR)

Roberto_HHComparison.pdf

4:00 PM Discussion of Higgs boson self-coupling and Di-Higgs production

Discussion2.mp4

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Plenary: Parton distribution functions

Convener: Ben Kilminster (Universität Zürich)

5:00 PM PDFs for Higgs boson processes at the LHC

Speaker: Juan Rojo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Juan.mp4

rojo-HiggsHunting-PDFs.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:10 PM Topical talks: Part 3

Convener: Ben Kilminster (Universität Zürich)

5:30 PM Model-independent differential measurement in H→WW at the CMS experiment

Speaker: Benedetta Camaiani (Univ. di Firenze e Sez. dell'INFN)

BCamaiani_HH2025.pdf

Benedetta.mp4

Abstract We present the differential measurement of H+jets in the WW decay channel using full run 2 CMS data. The measurements presented probe the CP nature of the Higgs boson couplings. A novel approach was used, exploiting adversarial neural network, to minimize model dependency of the measurement and allow reinterpretability. Constraints on several Wilson coefficients are also derived.

5:42 PM Naturalness, near-criticality and future colliders

Speaker: Víctor Enguita Vileta (Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) UAM-CSIC)

enguita-higgs-hunting-2025-v2.pdf

Victor.mp4

5:54 PM An Isotropic Prescription for Constructing the SMEFT in Normal Coordinates to Simplify Amplitude Computations

Speaker: Mia West (University of Florida)

Mia.mp4

SMEFT Geometry Higgs Hunting Mia West.pdf

Geometry provides us with a convenient interpretation of field-redefinition invariance for amplitudes and has many useful properties. For instance, it directs us towards Riemann Normal Coordinates (RNC) as an ideal choice of field-redefinition to compute amplitudes. It has been shown in the Higgs Effective Field Theory (EFT) assuming custodial symmetry & in the high-energy limit in RNC there are distinct kinematics for each Feynman graph. Redefining the Lagrangian in these coordinates appears to generate a reduced set of Feynman graphs which still sum to the correct amplitude. This property also holds in the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT) as a subset of HEFT. In this talk, we will demonstrate a prescription to construct the SMEFT in RNC around the symmetric point using isotropy, applicable to all orders in the SMEFT expansion. Then, breaking electroweak symmetry corresponds to traversing a geodesic to the vacuum and re-establishing RNC in terms of isotropic properties of the symmetric point. We argue that this prescription is simpler compared to the usual recursive method to construct RNC.

6:10 PM → 7:00 PM Historical talk

Convener: Ben Kilminster (Universität Zürich)

6:10 PM Mysterious Neutrinos

Speaker: Pierre Ramond (University of Florida)

Ramond.mp4

Talk Historique_Final .pdf

7:00 PM → 8:30 PM Welcome cocktail

Wed, July 16

9:25 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM Plenary: CMS Joker talk

Convener: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC))

10:00 AM CMS Joker talk: Search for anomalous Higgs couplings with H→γγ decays

Speaker: Federica De Riggi (Univ. di Roma I e Sez. dell'INFN)

De Riggi.mp4

HH-Federica.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:40 AM Topical talks: Part 4

10:25 AM Search for CP violating effects in HWW vertex in WH production channel in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Ricardo Barrue (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)

Barrue.mp4

Higgs_Hunting_Ricardo_Barrué.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:55 AM Plenary: BSM H(125) aspects and searches for new scalar bosons

Convener: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC))

10:40 AM BSM H(125) aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - CMS

Speaker: Siddhesh Sawant (Baylor University)

HiggsHunting2025_BSM_H125_v2.pdf

Sawant.mp4

11:00 AM BSM H(125) aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - ATLAS

Speaker: Eleni Skorda (University of Birmingham)

BSMHiggsAndNewScalarBosonsATLAS .pdf

Skorda.mp4

11:20 AM BSM H(125) aspects and searches for new scalar bosons: 3-slide overview

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC))

Heinemeyer.mp4

sven.pdf

11:25 AM Discussion of BSM H(125) aspects and searches for new scalar bosons

11:55 AM → 1:05 PM Lunch buffet

1:05 PM → 1:50 PM Plenary: Analysis methods

Convener: Julie Malcles (CEA-Saclay/Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay)

1:05 PM Analysis methods - CMS

Speaker: Maria Mazza (Florida State University)

HiggsHunting2025_MariaMazza_NewAnalysisMethodsInCMS.pdf

Mazza.mp4

1:20 PM Analysis methods - ATLAS

Speaker: Andrea Sciandra (UCSC)

SCIANDRA_ATLAS_AnalysisMethods_HiggsHunting2025.pdf

Sciandra.mp4

1:35 PM Analysis methods: 3-slide summary

Speaker: Julie Malcles (CEA-Saclay/Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay)

HH2025_Methods.pdf

Malcles.mp4

1:40 PM Discussion of analysis methods

Discussion.mp4

1:50 PM → 2:45 PM Topical talks: Part 5

Convener: Julie Malcles (CEA-Saclay/Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay)

1:50 PM Gauge-Higgs Unification and Symmetry Breaking: application to 5D GUTs

Speaker: Wanda Isnard (IP2I Lyon)

Higgs_Hunting__2025_ (1)-ISNARD.pdf

2:02 PM Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of pseudoscalar particles in the yytautau final state using pp collisions at \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Gadi Ninio (Tel Aviv University)

HiggsHunting2025_GadiNinio.pdf

Ninio.mp4

2:14 PM Flavour Deconstructing the Composite Higgs

Speaker: Marko Pesut (University of Zurich)

Marko_HH25.pdf

Pesut.mp4

Abstract: In the first part of the talk, we will introduce the main model building ideas (flavour non-universality and Higgs compositeness) that are central to our model, as well as the theoretical and experimental motivations for exploring these BSM avenues. In the second part of the talk, we present a flavour non-universal extension of the Standard Model combined with the idea of Higgs compositeness. At the TeV scale, the electroweak gauge symmetry is assumed to act in a non-universal manner on light- and third-generation fermions, while the Higgs emerges as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of a spontaneously broken global symmetry. The flavour deconstruction implies that the couplings of the light families to the composite sector are suppressed by powers of a heavy mass scale, explaining the flavour puzzle. We present a detailed analysis of the radiatively generated Higgs potential, showing how this intrinsically-flavoured framework has the ingredients to justify the unavoidable tuning in the Higgs potential necessary to separate electroweak and composite scales. The model is compatible with current experimental bounds and predicts new states at the TeV scale, which are within the reach of near future experimental searches.
Arxiv: 2407.10950

2:26 PM Search for a standard model-like Higgs boson in the mass range between 70 and 110 GeV in the diphoton final state in proton-proton collisions with CMS at √s=13 GeV

Speaker: Benjamin Massoteau (IPN, IN2P3-CNRS, UCB Lyon 1)

Higgs_Hunting_Presentation_Massoteau.pdf

Massoteau.mp4

Abstract The results of a search for a standard model-like Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range between 70 and 110 GeV are presented. The analysis uses the data set collected with the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions from Run 2 at √s=13 TeV and part of the data set from Run 3, at √s=13.6 TeV. The expected and observed 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for decays of an additional Higgs boson into two photons are presented.

2:45 PM → 3:15 PM Plenary: VBS

Convener: Pamela Ferrari (Radboud University Nijmegen & Nikhef)

2:45 PM Vector boson scattering and the Higgs boson

Speaker: Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg)

PELLEN_Higgs_hunting_2025.pdf

Pellen.mp4

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee break

3:45 PM → 5:10 PM Plenary: Effective field theories

Convener: Pamela Ferrari (Radboud University Nijmegen & Nikhef)

3:45 PM Effective field theories - theory overview

Speaker: Jose SANTIAGO PEREZ (Universidad de Granada)

JSantiago_HiggsHunting25.pdf

Santiago.mp4

4:05 PM Effective field theories - ATLAS

Speaker: Elena Mazzeo (CERN)

250715_HiggsHunting_EFTMeasurementsAtATLAS_1.pdf

Mazzeo.mp4

4:20 PM Effective field theories - CMS

Speaker: Suman Chatterjee (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

Chatterjee.mp4

Presentation_HH2025_fullbuild.pdf

4:35 PM Effective field theories: 3-slide overview

Speaker: Pamela Ferrari (Radboud University Nijmegen & Nikhef)

Ferrari.mp4

HIggshunting_Ferrari.pdf

4:40 PM Discussion of EFT interpretations

Discussion.mp4

5:10 PM → 5:40 PM Topical talks: Part 6

Convener: Pamela Ferrari (Radboud University Nijmegen & Nikhef)

5:10 PM Bootstrapping the EFTs

Speaker: Ziyu Dong (IFAE)

Dong.mp4

HH_Glueball_EFT-Ziyu.pdf

5:25 PM The Higgs meets the SMEFT at higher orders

Speaker: Dr Stefano Di Noi (KIT (ITP))

Di Noi.mp4

HiggsHunting25_DiNoi (1).pdf

5:40 PM → 6:20 PM Plenary: Vision talk

Convener: Pamela Ferrari (Radboud University Nijmegen & Nikhef)

5:40 PM Vision talk: Higgs physics and Early Universe cosmology

Speaker: Alfredo URBANO (Sapienza University of Rome and INFN)

Urbano_Higgs_Hunting_2025.pdf

Urbano.mp4

6:59 PM → 7:00 PM Dinner information

Directions

7:00 PM → 11:00 PM Dinner

Departure from "Ile aux cygnes" (RER station "Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel", métro station "Bir-Hakeim")
Boarding at 20:15, return at 23:00

Thu, July 17

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM Plenary: ATLAS Joker talk

Convener: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg))

10:00 AM ATLAS Joker talk: Recent results of searches for Higgs boson decays with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Stefano Manzoni (CERN)

smanzoni_HiggsRareDecay_HiggsHunting2025_170725.pdf

10:25 AM → 12:45 PM Plenary: Higgs physics within the European strategy update

Convener: Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg)

10:25 AM Challenges in Theory Predictions

Speaker: Federico Buccioni (TUM)

buccioni_higgs_hunting_25.pdf

Buccioni.mp4

10:50 AM Accelerators overview

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

20250717AcceleratorOverview-AP2.pptx

Zimmermann.mp4

11:15 AM Overview of the ESPPU strategy for Higgs and Electroweak physics and introduction to the discussion

Speakers: Gregorio BERNARDI (APC-Paris CNRS/IN2P3), gregorio bernardi (lpnhe)

Bernardi.mp4

HH-2025-Higgs-EW-Strategy-Bernardi.pdf

11:35 AM Discussion

Discussion2.mp4

Higgs_Hunting_ESPP_Discussion_2025.07.16.pdf

12:45 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch buffet

2:15 PM → 2:45 PM Plenary: Toponium

Convener: Florencia Canelli (Universität Zürich)

2:15 PM Toponium formation at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Fuks (LPTHE / Sorbonne U.)

Fuks.mp4

Toponium_HH25.pdf

2:45 PM → 4:15 PM Plenary: Concluding talks

Convener: Florencia Canelli (Universität Zürich)

2:45 PM Theory concluding talk

Speaker: Gavin Salam (University of Oxford, Department of Physics and All Souls College)

HiggsHunting-theory-closing.pdf

Salam.mp4

3:30 PM Experimental concluding talk

Speaker: Maria Cepeda (CIEMAT)

Cepeda.mp4

HHExperimentalSummary.pdf

4:15 PM → 5:15 PM Farewell coffee