Michael Kagan (Stanford) "Exploring the TeV Energy Regime with Double Higgs Production at the LHC"

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider provides a novel tool to search for signs of physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC. The Higgs boson is central to two frontiers in high energy physics today: the fundamental understanding of the mechanism for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and for the generation of particle masses, and the exciting prospect of discovering new heavy TeV-scale particles interacting with the Higgs boson.  Such new particles are predicted in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model which may incorporate  additional symmetries or extra dimensions of space-time.   In this talk, I will focus on how the search for di-Higgs boson production using the four bottom quark decay channel is central to probing both of these frontiers. I will discuss the critical developments in bottom quark identification that have enabled such searches for the first time.  I will also discuss key advancements in high performance silicon pixel detectors and in new pattern recognition techniques inspired by cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision methods that are extending the future discovery potential at the LHC.