Speaker
Michael Peskin
(SLAC/Stanford U.)
Description
The next goal for high-energy accelerator experiments is the precision study of the Higgs boson. This can be accomplished by an electron-positron collider covering the energy region 250 GeV - 1 TeV. There is now an opportunity to construct an accelerator of this type, an e+e- Higgs Factory. In this talk, I will review (1) why the study of the Higgs boson is so important, and how it can open a new window on physics beyond the Standard Model, (2) why e+e- colliders give important advantages for the study of the Higgs boson, (3) how Higgs boson measurements fit into a more general program of Standard Model precision tests, and how this viewpoint enhances the power of the Higgs boson measurements, (4) the prospects for actually realizing this program of experiments at the International Linear Collider in Japan.
