Higgs Properties at the LHC Implications for the Standard Model and for Cosmology /

• Main Author: Yue, Jason Tsz Shing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Cosmology.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This thesis studies the properties of the Higgs particle, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, in order to elucidate its role in electroweak symmetry breaking and cosmological phase transition in the early universe. It shows that a generic spin-2 Higgs impostor is excluded by the p...