Dr. Christopher Meyer, University of Pennsylvania

"Using Higgs boson measurements to search for new physics"

Abstract: Following several years of successful 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHC, properties of the Higgs boson can be probed with ever increasing accuracy. I will focus on the recent differential cross section measurements of the Higgs boson using the two-photon decay channel. These are used to search for possible deviations in kinematic distributions which could indicate physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Using Effective Field Theory, limits are set on possible couplings to dimension-six operators corresponding to BSM physics. Finally, I will summarize the recent search for new physics using the two-photon mass spectra up to 2.3 TeV.