Phenomenology of the Higgs at the hadron colliders: from the Standard Model to Supersymmetry

Julien Baglio

Published 2011-11-04Version 1

The Higgs boson, relic of the spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking, is one of the most important searches at current hadron colliders. This thesis wishes to present theoretical predictions for the inclusive production and decay of the Higgs boson(s) either in the context of the Standard Model (SM) or in its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM) where five Higgs bosons are present. We will focus on the two major hadron colliders, the Fermilab Tevatron collider and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is running at 7 TeV. We will present the predictions for the dominant production and decay channels and describe the thorough analysis of the theoretical uncertainties affecting these predictions that has been conducted. We will give the implications on experimental searches and in particular revisit the inferred limits on SM Higgs boson mass and on the MSSM parameter space. We will also give an important consequence on the SM Higgs search in the $H \to \tau \tau$ channel. Some perspectives for futur works will be given in the end.