Welcome

• Jessica Gasparik (BNL)
• Marc-André Pleier (BNL)

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at BNL

• Doon Gibbs (BNL)

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Memories of Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber

• Michael H. Goldhaber
• Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (SBU)

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Unveiling new physics signature with the Higgs boson and the ATLAS detector

• Jiayi Chen (Brandeis University)

Room: hybrid event - zoom and 510 LSR Ten years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, dominant Higgs production and decay channels were observed and found to be compatible with the Standard Model hypothesis. My goal is to measure the fiducial cross section - the probability - of the vector boson fusion production of the Higgs boson decaying to two W bosons differentially as functions of various kinematic observables. I interpret the difference between the measured distribution and the Standard Model prediction with a beyond Standard Model formalism: the Effective Field Theory (EFT). This formalism describes anomalous couplings using a set of parameters called the Wilson coefficients. Using the ATLAS Run-2 dataset, the cross-section measurements narrow the range of several charge-parity even and odd anomalous interactions between the Higgs boson and the gauge bosons.