Higgs Hunting 2022
200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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.
Almost 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 12th workshop of the « Higgs Hunting » series organized on September 12-14th, 2022 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.
Current plans are for the workshop to be held in person once again, to bring back 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.
Registration deadline: September 5th, 2022

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Registration (with coffee and croissants) 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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Prelude by the organizers 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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Plenary: Theory overview 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. LehmannPrésident de session: Paris Sphicas (CERN/University of Athens)
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Plenary: H(125) bosonic and fermionic decays 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. LehmannPrésident de session: Paris Sphicas (CERN & University of Athens)
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H(125) bosonic decays in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: Ruggero Turra (INFN Milano)
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H(125) bosonic decays — CMSOrateur: Toni Sculac (University of Split)
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H(125) fermionic decays in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: Giuseppe Callea (University of Glasgow)
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H(125) fermionic decays — CMSOrateur: Christina Reissel (ETH Zürich)
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H(125) bosonic and fermionic decays: 3 transparencies of comparison
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Discussion
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Lunch Bures cafeteria (Orsay)
Bures cafeteria
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Prelude by the organizers 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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Young scientist forum: Part 1 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. LehmannPrésident de session: Robert Cousins (University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA))
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Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H→ZZ→4l channel in ATLAS with the full Run 2 datasetOrateur: Siyuan Yan (University of Oxford)
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Overview of the ttW process and its measurements by the ATLAS experiment.Orateur: Brendon Bullard (SLAC)
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Mixed QCD-EW corrections in Higgs boson productionOrateur: Marco Bonetti (RWTH Aachen)
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Plenary: H(125) General combination 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. LehmannPrésident de session: Robert Cousins (University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA))
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H(125) General combination — CMSOrateur: Fabio Monti (Inst. of High Energy Physics)
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H(125) General combination in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: Paolo Francavilla (INFN Pisa)
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H(125) General combination : 3 transparencies of comparison
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Discussion
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Coffee break 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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Young scientist forum: Part 2 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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IJCLab Orsay (Monday) & LPNHE Paris (Tuesday & Wednesday)236Montrer la salle sur la cartePrésident de session: Dermot Moran (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT))-
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Combination of Higgs boson pair production and single Higgs production at the LHC with the ATLAS detectorOrateur: Alkaid Cheng (University of Wisconsin)
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Top-associated Higgs boson production and the top-to-Higgs fragmentation functionOrateur: Colomba Brancaccio (RWTH Aachen)
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Differential and CP measurements in ttH(H→bb) with ATLASOrateur: Neelam Kumari (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), IN2P3-CNRS )
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Historical talks: Ten years after the H discovery 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. LehmannPrésident de session: Dermot Moran (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT))
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The Genesis of ATLAS - The long journey to the Higgs boson discoveryOrateur: Peter Jenni (CERN and University of Freiburg)
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The Higgs boson Turns 10: CMS’ JourneyOrateur: Tejinder Virdee (Imperial College)
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Welcome drink 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
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Coffee Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Prelude by the organizers Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Young scientist forum: Part 3 Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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SM and BSM Higgs searches at LHCbOrateur: Laura Buonincontri (University of Padova)
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Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the final state with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons with CMS
In this talk the most recent results concerning the non-resonant Higgs boson pairs (HH) production in the final state with two tau leptons and two bottom quarks will be presented. The bbtautau channel represent a good compromise between a sizeable branching fraction (7.3%) and a very good purity of the tau pair selection. The HH search and the related 'kappa-modifiers' studies will be presented. The analysis is performed with the full LHC Run2 data. The sensitivity of the search is considerably improved compared to the previously published results with 2016 data due to increased luminosity, improved object identification algorithms, as for example Neural Network based tau lepton identification, and newly introduced machine learning based analysis techniques which allowed to enhance the sensitivity of the search.
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Parametrized classifiers for optimal EFT sensitivity (Zoom)Orateur: Siyu Chen (EPF Lausanne)
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Search for CP violation in the tau Yukawa coupling with CMS
Recent results from the study of the CP structure of the tau Yukawa coupling shed light on new experimental observables sensitive to CP violation. The talk will review the methods (impact parameter, neutral pion and polarimetric vector methods) and validation techniques employed during Run 2 for the different tau tau final states. The sensitivity of this measurement relies on an efficient hadronic tau identification and a precise separation of their different decay modes. Prospects for Run 3 and HL-LHC will be presented, including kinematic fit techniques to reconstruct the tau lepton momenta.
Orateur: Mario Sessini (CNRS)
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Plenary: BSM and rare H(125) decays - including H→νν and LFV decays Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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LPNHE Paris
Président de session: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC))-
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Additional scalar bosons in the ATLAS experiment (Zoom)Orateur: Xiaotong Chu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Additional scalar bosons — CMSOrateur: Yiwen Wen (DESY)
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BSM and rare H(125) decays in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: YUAN-TANG Chou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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BSM and rare H(125) decays — CMSOrateur: Maxime GOUZEVITCH (IP2I Lyon)
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Lunch buffet LPNHE Paris
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Prelude by the organizers Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Plenary: CMS joker talk Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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The invisible Higgs, newest results of CMSOrateur: Olivier Davignon (LLR (CNRS/IN2P3 & École Polytechnique))
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Plenary: HH Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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HH — 3 transparencies of comparison
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Discussion
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Coffee break LPNHE Paris
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Prelude by the organizers Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Young scientist forum: Part 4 Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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LPNHE Paris
Président de session: Anne-Catherine LE BIHAN (IPHC - CNRS)-
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Search for Lorentz boosted nonresonant HH production in the 4b final state with the CMS detector (Zoom)
Double Higgs boson production (HH) allows us to measure the Higgs self-interaction and is uniquely sensitive to the structure of the Higgs potential. This talk will cover the production of HH→4b with highly boosted Higgs bosons in the gluon-fusion (ggF) and VBF production mode with 138 fb^{-1} of data collected with the CMS Experiment at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV [1]. The four-bottom-quark final state has the largest branching ratio (33.9%) amongst all HH decays, but is dominated by large backgrounds (QCD and top) and a poor decay channel resolution. To enhance the signal sensitivity, this analysis uses a dedicated jet identification algorithm developed to identify boosted H$\rightarrow$ bb jets, known as the ParticleNet Tagger. This analysis is very sensitive to anomalous quartic VVHH couplings and, for the first time, we exclude $\kappa_{2V}$ = 0 at >5 $sigma$, when other Higgs couplings are at their SM values. This talk will cover the analysis methods used and show the final sensitivity to different HH couplings ($\kappa_{\lambda}$, $\kappa_{2V}$ and $\kappa_{V}$). I'll also discuss future directions and scope of improvements for measuring the HH process.
Orateur: Irene Dutta (California Institute of Technology (US))
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Plenary: H EFTs and CP violation Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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LPNHE Paris
Président de session: Anne-Catherine LE BIHAN (IPHC - CNRS)-
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H EFTs — CMSOrateur: Ram Krishna sharma (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing)
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Higgs Effective Field Theories results in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: Alexander Held (New York University)
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CP violation results in the ATLAS experimentOrateur: Ricardo Jose Morais Silva Gonçalo (LIP, Lisbon)
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H EFTs and CP violation — 3 transparencies of comparison
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Discussion
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Plenary: New opportunities for electroweak baryogenesis Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Président de session: Anne-Catherine LE BIHAN (IPHC - CNRS)-
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New opportunities for electroweak baryogenesisOrateur: Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
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Dinner Tour Zamansky (Sorbonne Université)
Tour Zamansky
Sorbonne Université
Workshop dinner at "Tour Zamansky"
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Coffee LPNHE Paris
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Prelude by the organizers Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Plenary: ATLAS joker talk Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Searches for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson into e𝛕 and μ𝛕 in ATLAS (Zoom)Orateur: Antonio De Maria (Nanjing University (CN))
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Plenary: Future colliders Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Recent theory progress from and after the European Strategy UpdateOrateur: Gauthier Durieux (CERN)
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Physics at Future Colliders: overview & recent developmentsOrateur: Emmanuel Perez (CERN)
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Roadmap for a first strategy for Latin American physics (Zoom)Orateur: Maria Teresa Dova (National University of La Plata)
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Highlights from the Snowmass Summer meetingOrateur: Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
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The Detector and Accelerator R&D roadmaps to future collidersOrateur: Karl Jakobs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
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Discussion
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Lunch buffet LPNHE Paris
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Prelude by the organizers Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Young scientist forum: Part 5 Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Président de session: Michael Duehrssen-Debling (CERN)-
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HH production at the High-Luminosity LHC with CMS
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is expected to deliver an integrated luminosity of up to 3000 fb-1. The very high instantaneous luminosity will lead to about 200 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing (“pileup”) superimposed to each event of interest, therefore providing extremely challenging experimental conditions. CMS prospects on Higgs self-coupling measurements and HH production at the HL-LHC are presented.
Orateur: Izzeddin Suat Donertas (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)
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Plenary: New Physics implications of precise H couplings measurements Amphithéatre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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LPNHE Paris
Président de session: Michael Duehrssen-Debling (CERN)-
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New Physics implications of precise H couplings measurementsOrateur: Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago)
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Plenary: Concluding talks Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE Paris)
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Experimental concluding talkOrateur: Giacinto Piacquadio (Stony Brook University)
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Farewell coffee LPNHE Paris
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