TASI 2013 lectures on Higgs physics within and beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

These lectures start with a detailed pedagogical introduction to electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model, including gauge boson and fermion mass generation and the resulting predictions for Higgs boson interactions. I then survey Higgs boson decays and production mechanisms at hadron and $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders. I finish with two case studies of Higgs physics beyond the Standard Model: two-Higgs-doublet models, which I use to illustrate the concept of minimal flavor violation, and models with isospin-triplet scalar(s), which I use to illustrate the concept of custodial symmetry.

Comments: 48 pages, 25 figures, comments welcome. v2: fixed nonstandard convention for SU(2) generators T+/T- (changes in Eqs. 46, 47, 51, 163, 164, and 165). v3: fixed a typo in footnote 8