Open Challenges of the Higgs Sector

Abstract

Despite being generously supported by experimental data, the Standard Model for particle physics (SM) has many unsettled questions. At least for the time being, the discovery of the Higgs boson - a crucial step in the validation of the SM – does not take us any closer to answering these questions. With no clear roadmap in sight, the Higgs sector of particle physics remains a largely unexplored territory.