Session H02: LHC Physics

Expected physics reach for the High-Luminosity LHC

The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project, a planned upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, is scheduled to begin colliding protons at unprecedented instantaneous luminosity later this decade. The HL-LHC will deliver an unprecedented proton-proton collision dataset to the LHC experiments at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV. The experiments - ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE - have planned a series of major detector upgrades to prepare for the higher instantaneous luminosity and center-of-mass energy, as well as the increase in simultaneous collisions (or pileup) foreseen for the HL-LHC program. These upgrades will allow the experiments to maintain or improve physics performance, despite the more challenging environment. Using the HL-LHC dataset, we will be able to improve on statistically-limited Standard Model measurements, and extend the sensitivity of searches. In this talk, we present a selection of physics prospects for the HL-LHC, including Higgs boson properties, searches for Standard Model Higgs pair production, and searches for new physics beyond-the-Standard-Model.   

Lepton Universality: ATLAS/CMS Measurements

Possible violation of lepton flavor universality in B meson decays is among most interesting hints for physics beyond the standard model that may be reachable at the Large Hadron Collider. In this talk I'll cover a number of recent searches and measurements performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments that test lepton flavor universality in various processes and look for signs of  new particles possibly explaining the effects seen in B meson decays.   

Higgs Physics at the LHC

Since the discovery of the 125-GeV Higgs boson, detailed studies of its properties are of fundamental importance given the Higgs boson’s unique role in the Standard Model and possible connections to new physics beyond the Standard Model.  In this talk, I will overview the most recent Higgs boson measurements, including Higgs boson associated searches, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments.