The Higgs boson discovery in 2012 during the Run-I of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) kickstarted a rich exploration in fundamental physics. Ten years later and with five times more data, the LHC Run-2 has enabled us to study this central constituent of the Standard Model (SM) in great detail.
The large dataset enables us to take a generic approach to uncover signatures of beyond the SM physics. The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) allows us to look for all possible new interactions that are too heavy to be directly produced at the LHC. I will present the latest Higgs boson measurements from the ATLAS experiment and its role in constraining the SMEFT parameter space. I will also discuss a global SMEFT interpretation within the ATLAS experiment looking at the electroweak and the Higgs sector. These results demonstrate that a precision era at the high energy frontier of particle physics is genuinely underway.
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) program will commence in seven years and further enrich this physics program by providing a ten-fold increase in data. A crucial element for the ATLAS experiment to handle the harsh environment of HL-LHC is the ATLAS inner tracker (ITk). I will present tests of the mechanical support structure for the ITk end-cap detector.
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Federico Bianchini, Yifan Chen
(fbianc@slac, yifanch@stanford)
