RE: Natural Order and Science
March 8, 2016 at 6:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2016 at 6:05 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 8, 2016 at 5:53 am)Alex K Wrote: @Mathilda
You're good at this! A fun game - I got something amusing for you:
With the discovery of a Higgs boson, experiments have finally probed all sectors of the
Standard Model (SM). The priority is now to measure the properties of the Higgs particle, and
to explore the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.
Unlike in on-shell Higgs production by gluon fusion or in Higgs decays, which occur at E ∼
mh , in channels in which the Higgs is produced in association with electroweak gauge bosons,
pp → hV , V = W, Z, the invariant mass flowing into the hV V vertex is mainly limited by PDF
suppression: these channels can have enhanced sensitivity to effects growing with energy.
See what I did there?
Ah yes, I see that it could have a useful role in constraining and discovering new physics with future high-energy and high-luminosity runs of the LHC. Assuming of course measurements with greater precision of Higgs and gauge boson production rates and kinematics.
