18–20 May 2026
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Europe/London timezone

Weak and Higgs physics from the lattice

19 May 2026, 14:30
30m
Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305) (James Clerk Maxwell Building)

Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305)

James Clerk Maxwell Building

School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD
Abstract for talk

Speaker

Sofie Martins (University of Graz)

Description

The manifestly gauge-invariant and non-perturbatively complete lattice formulation of the weak interactions and the Brout-Englert-Higgs effect is connected to the usual perturbative description in phenomenology via the Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism. However, slight differences between the two have been observed, which can potentially be accounted for by augmenting perturbation theory. We report on our ongoing lattice investigations of these additional effects using a setup with two generations of leptons coupled vectorially to the gauge-Higgs system. We explore the spectrum, inner structure in terms of weak (quasi-)PDFs, and spectral functions of the system to eventually compare cross sections to experimental results.

Authors

Axel Maas (University of Graz) Georg Wieland (University of Graz) Patrick Jenny (University of Graz) Sofie Martins (University of Graz)

Presentation materials