Search for the Higgs boson: theoretical perspectives

Abstract

We present a short review of experimental and theoretical constraints on the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson. We briefly illustrate the unsatisfactory aspects of the standard theory, and we present some general considerations about possible non-standard scenarios.

Comments: 13 pages latex, 6 PS figures. Talk given at Les Rencontres de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, March 4-10, 2001