Physics Group Meeting

I'll evaluate the possibility of searching for the Higgs boson in channels with multiple non-resonant leptons in light of recent advances in multi-lepton search techniques at the LHC. The total multi-lepton Higgs signal exceeds the four lepton gold-plated resonant mode, but is spread over many channels with same-sign di-lepton, tri-lepton, and four lepton final states. While any individual channel alone is not significant, the exclusive combination across multiple channels provides a sensitivity competitive with other discovery level searches for the Higgs boson. I'll also discuss more generally the most recent multi-lepton search results from ATLAS and CMS from a theorist's perspective.