Higgs Phenomenology: a short review

Abstract

I briefly review the Higgs sector in the Standard Model and in its minimal supersymmetric extension. After summarizing the properties of the Higgs bosons, I will discuss the prospects for discovering these particles at the present colliders LEP2 and Tevatron, and at the next generation colliders LHC and a high--energy $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ linear collider. The possibilities of studying the properties of the Higgs bosons will be then summarized. [Short write-up of lectures given at the XXXVI Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, June 1996.]

Comments: 16 pages in Latex, no figure