Wednesday 13 February 2013 

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Geneva University)


Title: "Higgs Factories: Future possibilities for precise studies of the H(126) Higgs candidate" 

Abstract: We present a summary of the state-of-the-art comparison relevant to possible studies 
of the H(126) Higgs boson candidate. The machines considered are the LHC and its upgrades, 
Linear and circular e+e- colliders, gamma-gamma colliders and muon colliders. The conclusions 
of a recent ICFA beam dynamics HF2012 workshop will be shown. The circular e+e- machine TLEP 
is able to study with great precision the energy range from the Z peak to the ttbar threshold 
and will be described in more detail. Upgradable to a pp machine of 100 TeV ECM, it can be 
considered as a possible long term vision for CERN.