Overview papers on Higgs, LHC Physics, detectors, etc

LHC physics

Physics at the LHC
F Gianotti, Physics Reports 403-404 (2004) 379-399.
~/DOCUMENTS/FGianotti_PhysRep2004.pdf

Collider Physics: LHC
F Gianotti
(not very recent, but includes good intro to SM Higgs search overview)
~/DOCUMENTS/open-2000-293.pdf

LHC physics: the first one--two year(s)
F Gianotti, ML Mangano
~/DOCUMENTS/ hep-ph-0504221.pdf

LHC: the accelerator and experiments

The following issue of the Journal of Instrumentation (JINST) is dedicated to the LHC: machine, ATLAS, CMS, and all the other experiments: Journal of Instrumentation JINST 3 (2008)

Physics at the high energy frontier: the Large Hadron Collider project (Editors: George Kalmus, Robert Brown, David Evans, Valerie Gibson, Richard Nickerson). Proceedings of the Royal Society Discussion meeting held in May 2011, published in Philosophical Transactions A (including articles on the Physics, the SM, the detectors and the collider) - flyer - read articles online

Higgs phenomenology

Electroweak symmetry breaking in historical perspective by Chris Quigg (Ann. Rev. Nucl. and Particle Science 65 (2015) 25-42.)

Unanswered questions in the electroweak theory by Chris Quigg (Ann. Rev. Nucl. and Particle Science 59 (2009) 505.)

The Anatomy of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking by A. Djouadi (encyclopedic!):

• The Higgs boson in the Standard Model ( Volume I)
• The Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model ( Volume II)

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Particle Physics - lectures given at TASI 2011 by Laura Reina:

• Lectures on Higgs-Boson physics (arXiv 1208.5504)

Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs
Academic training lectures (Video+Slides), January 2009:
Lecture #1 Lecture #2 Lecture #3

The Higgs boson 10 years after discovery

The journal Nature published, online on the 4th July 2022, a series of papers on what we know (and what we don't know) since the Higgs discovery ten years ago:

• The Higgs boson turns ten by G Salam, L-T Wang and G Zanderighi (Nature 607 (2022) 41)
• A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery (Nature 607 (2022) 52)
• A portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery (Nature 607 (2022) 60)

Higgs self-coupling

A theoretical paper published in 2013, shortly after the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, reviewing the importance of Higgs-pair production processes for the measurement of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC:

• The measurement of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC: theoretical status (JHEP04 (2013) 151)

Two theoretical papers published in 2016 and 2017, highlighting that single Higgs production processes at the LHC can also additionally be used to measure/constrain the Higgs self-coupling:

• Probing the Higgs self coupling via single Higgs production at the LHC (JHEP12 (2016) 080)
• Trilinear Higgs coupling determination via single-Higgs differential measurements at the LHC (EPJ C77 (2017) 887)

Some experimental papers in more recent years:

• Combination of searches for Higgs boson pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector (PL B800 (2020) 135103)
• Constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling from single- and double-Higgs production with the ATLAS detector using pp collisions at 13 TeV (PL B843 (2023) 137745)

Searches for di-Higgs production in specific final states:

• Search for Higgs boson pairs decaying to WW*WW*, WW*ττ, and ττττ in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV (CMS experiment) (JHEP07 (2023) 095)
• Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final state with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV (CMS experiment) (PL B842 (2023) 137531)
• Search for nonresonant pair production of highly energetic Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks (CMS experiment) (arXiV hep-ex 2205.06667)
• Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Four b Quark Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV (CMS experiment) (PRL 129 (2022) 081802)

Some less technical articles:

• Extending the reach on Higgs’ self-coupling: a report from the ATLAS experiment (CERN Courier March 2022)
• Shedding light on Higgs-boson self-interactions (ATLAS Briefing, 21 Sept 2023)

Higgs Search Overview

Have we found the Higgs boson yet? (2012)
P Teixeira-Dias, RHUL. Invited talk at the Physics meeting of the NExT Institute, University of Sussex

Overview of recent developments in Higgs physics: experiments and theory (2010)
P Teixeira-Dias, RHUL. Invited talk at the UK HEP Forum 2010

The Search for the Higgs Boson: Past, Present and Future (2007)
Talk at the IoP HEPP annual meeting, 2007
P Teixeira-Dias

Higgs Search at LEP

Observation of an excess in the ALEPH search for the Standard Model Higgs boson (2001)
P Teixeira-Dias arXiv: hep-ex/0108001

The Standard Model Higgs boson search at LEP: combined results (2001)
P Teixeira-Dias arXiv: hep-ex/0108002

Higgs boson searches at LEP (2007)
P Teixeira-Dias arXiv:0804.4146 hep-ex
~/DOCUMENTS/hep-ex-0804.4146v1.pdf

The Higgs particle in the standard model: Experimental results from LEP (2002)
P.A. McNamara, S.L. Wu (Wisconsin U., Madison)
Published in Rept.Prog.Phys.65:465-528,2002.
~/DOCUMENTS/r20401.pdf

Higgs discovery and properties at LHC

Measurements of the properties of the resonance (2013):

• Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data arXiv:1307.1432 hep-ex
• Measurements of Higgs production and couplings using diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC arXiv:1307.1427 hep-ex
• Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs arXiv:1212.6639 hep-ex

ATLAS and CMS discovery papers (July 2012):

• Observation of a New Particle in the Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC Phys. Lett. B716 (2012) 1-29.
• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC Phys. Lett. B716 (2012) 30-61.

The full list of published LHC Higgs papers can be found here: ATLAS list and CMS list.

Higgs searches at the TeVatron and LHC

Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the ATLAS Detector (May 2012)
Ralf Bernhard (on behalf of The ATLAS Collab.), arXiv:1205.4629 hep-ex

Standard Model Higgs boson searches with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (Nov. 2011)
Aleandro Nisati (on behalf of the ATLAS Collab.), arXiv:1111.7132 hep-ex

Limits on the production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) =7 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2011)
The ATLAS Collab., arXiv:1106.2748 hep-ex

Searches for Higgs bosons at the LHC (2009)
M Delmastro (on behalf of ATLAS and CMS) arXiv:0909.0493 hep-ex

Combined SM Higgs Limits at the TeVatron (2009)
N Krumnack (on behalf of CDF + D0) arXiv:0910.3353 hep-ex

Prospects for Higgs searches with the ATLAS detector (2009)
E Richter-Was arXiv:0903.4198 hep-ex

Higgs searches at the LHC (2007)
A. de Roeck and G Polesello
C R Physique 8 (2007) 1078-1098. (Comptes Rendus de Physique)
~/DOCUMENTS/Polesello_DeRoeck.pdf

Higgs boson searches at Hadron Colliders (TeVatron + LHC)
V Buscher and K Jakobs
International Journal of Modern Physics Letters A Vol. 20 (2005)
hep-ph-0504099

Higgs Physics at the LHC
G Unal, Acta Phys. Pol. B 38 (2007) 717-729
~/DOCUMENTS/GUnal.pdf

ATLAS experiment reports

ATLAS detector and physics performance ( ATLAS TDR, 1999)
(Chapter 19 is the Higgs searches chapter; the colour figures with the overall search potential are here.)

Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics (CSC book)
( CERN-OPEN-2008-020 or arXiv:0901.0512v1 (hep-ex))

Prospects for the Search of a Standard Model Higgs Boson in ATLAS using Vector Boson Fusion
( SN-ATLAS-2003-024; published in EPJC.)

Higgs production cross-sections and branching ratios for the ATLAS Higgs working group
(ATL-COM-PHYS-2007-024)

The ATLAS Monte Carlo project
( ATL-COM-SOFT-2008-024; to be submitted to JINST)