Implications for the Standard Model and for Cosmology
by
Jason Tsz Shing Yue
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This thesis studies the properties of the Higgs particle, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, in order to elucidate its role in electroweak symmetry breaking and cosmological phase transition in the early universe. It shows that a generic spin-2 Higgs impostor is excluded by the...