The Higgs Boson Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider

Roger Wolf studied physics at the Heidelberg University and received his PhD for the work on "Diffractive open charm production in deep-inelastic scattering and photo production at the HERA accelerator", in 2006. From 2007 till 2010 he worked as a post-doctorate at the University of Hamburg, where he was involved in the first measurements with top quark pairs at the LHC. For 2011 and 2012 he became fellow of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG) for scientific work abroad, affiliated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He took actively part in the discovery of the Higgs boson. Since 2013 he is affiliated to the "Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie" (KIT) working on the mensuration of the Higgs sector in the context of the SM and on searches for additional Higgs bosons in the context of extensions of the SM. Since 2014 he is fellow of the "Eliteprogramm für Postdoktoranden" of the "Baden-Württemberg Stiftung."

Introduction.- The Higgs Boson in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.- Higgs Boson Searches Before the Advent of the Large Hadron Collider.- Discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.- Properties of the New Particle.- Conclusions.