| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Redwood C and D |
| Abstract: | The CDF experiment at the Tevatron has a rich portfolio of Higgs boson analyses, some of which continue to provide competitive and complimentary information to the LHC experiments. While the new boson discovered at the LHC is observed to decay to photons, W bosons, and Z bosons, the dominant predicted decay mode of the standard model Higgs boson to bottom quarks has yet to be observed or excluded. The searches by the CDF and D0 collaborations currently lead in expected sensitivity to a standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks, and show evidence for this process. The CDF collaboration has also performed searches for Higgs bosons from supersymmetric models. This presentation will review the most relevant Higgs boson analyses at CDF, and discuss what new information might still be gained from the Tevatron data set. |
| Speaker: | Homer Wolfe - The Ohio State University
 Dr. Wolfe performed his doctoral research on strong coupling and parton density measurements with the ZEUS experiment at HERA, and graduated in 2008 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a postdoc at Ohio State working on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron, where he has served as Deputy Convener of the Higgs boson working group and currently serves as the co-convener of the Top Quark and Exotics working group. He is also active in the CMS experiment at the LHC, as Level 1 Trigger Software Coordinator, focusing on near-term upgrade development.
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