[CPAN-BOLETIN] "After the Discovery: Hunting for a Non-Standard Higgs Sector", Benasque April 7-18, 2014

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Dear colleague,

we will be organizing a workshop next Spring in Benasque which should
be high scientific interest to several groups of the CPAN Consolider
program (see announcement appended below). We would appreciate it if
you help us distribute this information.
Cheers,

Aurelio

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Workshop: After the Discovery: Hunting for a Non-Standard Higgs Sector
Organizers: Christophe Grojean (ICREA/IFAE), Aurelio Juste (ICREA/IFAE), 
Ian Low (Northwestern/Argonne)
and Filip Moortgat (CERN)
Dates: April 7-18, 2014
Registration deadline: January 10, 2014

The discovery of a Higgs particle by the LHC experiments has launched 
the exploration of
electroweak symmetry breaking and potentially opened a window into 
beyond- Standard Model
physics such as an extended Higgs sector, anomalous Higgs boson 
production mechanisms,
or rare Higgs boson decay modes. Such discoveries would represent a 
smoking gun for an
extended Higgs sector, and could have long-reaching implications on our 
understanding on
how Nature works at its most fundamental level, including connections 
with dark matter and other
cosmological problems. This represents an exciting and broad research 
program, complementary
to precise measurements of Higgs boson couplings at the LHC and future 
e+/e- and/or pp colliders.

The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from the 
theoretical and
experimental communities for a joint brainstorming on the status of this 
research, identify
areas for improvements, as well as set new promising directions, ahead 
of the start of the
LHC run at 13/14 TeV.

The workshop will have a duration of two weeks, and will take place 
April 7-18, 2014 at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual,
http://benasque.org/, located in Benasque (Spain). Benasque is a 
beautiful village with a
famous ski resort, located in the heart of the Pyrenees, close to the 
Spanish border with France.
In addition to the auditorium, the center offers desk space, ubiquitous 
black boards and several
meeting areas. To ensure a productive workshop, attendance will be 
limited to a maximum of 70
participants. In addition, the meeting agenda will be kept light, 
leaving plenty of time
for discussion among participants, in the spirit of the Les Houches 
workshops.


The preliminary webpage for the workshop 
is:http://www.benasque.org/2014higgs/
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