HIPARCOS Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group

The Higgs boson as a bridge between Particle Physics and Cosmology

Important papers to read

Below you can find information for:

     * important papers to read

     * recorded lectures

     * material about scientific presentations/public speaking

Resources on scientific writing & speaking

General bibliography on 2HDMs

     * Branco et al, Theory and Phenomenology of 2HDMs

          (very extensive)

     * Djouadi, Anatomy of electroweak symmetry breaking (Vol I, Vol II)

          (Vol I: SM Higgs boson, Vol II: MSSM)

     * Bhattacharyya, Das, Scalar sector of 2HDMs: a mini review [1507.06424]

          (very concise 15p review including a lot of important relations)

     * Gfitter group, Global electroweak fit and constraints on two-Higgs-doublet models

     

2HDMs and electroweak baryogenesis

     * Su, Williams, Zhang, Strong first order electroweak phase transition in 2HDM [2011.04540]

          (discusses several channels including A → ZH and top decays including theory constraints + constraints

          from requirement of FOPT)

      * Kling, Su, Su, 2HDM neutral scalars under the LHC [2004.04172]

          (similar to the above, includes constraint from ttZ measurement)

      * Kling, No, Su, Anatomy of exotic Higgs decays in 2HDM [1604.01406]

          (mostly focuses on Higgs decays to gauge bosons/scalars. Nice review of 2HDM including analytic

          relations for couplings. Includes an analysis of A → ZH parameter space with constraints from unitarity.)

     * Dorsch, Huber, No, A strong EWPT in the 2HDM after LHC8 [1305.6610]

          (study of conditions for EW baryogenesis in hierarchical 2HDMs. Includes analytic expressions for

          effective potential at finite temperature)

     * Dorsch et al, Echoes of the Electroweak Phase Transition [1405.5537]

          (detailed study of A → ZH (in llbb and llWW decay modes)

     * Haisch, Polesello, Searching for heavy Higgs bosons in ttZ and tbW final states [1807.07734]

          (detailed study of ttZ sensitivity including all signal diagrams + interference with SM ttZ process)


2HDMs and Dark Matter

     * LHC DM WG, "the white paper"  

     * Bauer, Haisch, Kahlhoefer, Simplified dark matter models with pseudoscalar mediators

     * Arcadi, Djouadi, Raidal, Dark matter through the Higgs portal [1903.03616]


Data analysis

     * Cowan et al, Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics

     * Cousins, What is the likelihood function

     * Cousins, Lectures on statistics

     * Living review of machine learning techniques


Lecture notes

     * Green, Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology [2109.05854.pdf]


How to create better, more effective presentations/papers -  by Jean-Luc Doumont


The video on the right is a must see.

A short overview of the topics addressed in the video

can also be found in J-L Doumont's site at the links below.


     * shortcomes in scientific writing

     * English communication for scientists  




Improving your skills in public speaking


A few presentations on public speaking:

- How to avoid death by PowerPoint, D.J.P. Phillips

- The magical science of storytelling, D.J.P. Phillips

- The 110 techniques of communication, D.J.P. Phillips


And a few examples of nice scientific presentations

- A question of survival: why we hunted the Higgs, S. Goldfarb

- The LHC and the beginning of physics, J. Beacham






Recorded lectures

Baryogenesis

     * Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis, M. Shaposhnikov (Lecture 1, 2, 3, 4)

     * CP violation and the baryogenesis puzzle, D. Morrissey (Lecture 1, 2, 3)