| Seminar Date: | Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Madrone |
| Abstract: | The recent observation of a new boson at 126 GeV opens a new phase in the LHC experiments, in which the nature of this state (Standard Model-like Higgs boson or not) will have to be carefully studied and determined. The H->b-bbar channel plays a fundamental role in this study, allowing to test the boson properties for decays into fermions. I'll present the most recent results from CMS on the Higgs boson search in the b-bbar channel, concluding with some remarks on the future of this search in the LHC runs in 2014 and beyond. |
| Speaker: | David Lopes-Pegna - Princeton University
 Dr. Lopes-Pegna earned his PhD from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2005, working on the FOCUS experiment. He then took a postdoc at LBNL, working on the BaBar experiment, where he convened the tracking and semi-leptonic physics working grouns. He has been on the research staff at Princeton since 2007, continuing his work on BaBar and also joining the CMS experiment, which is his current focus. He is convener of the inclusive B and Jet substructure groups, and works on MET+jet trigger development, B production, and is leading the Higgs -> b-bbar analysis effort.
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