A Higgs Hunter's Guide to the Large Hadron Collider
Frau Professor Barbara Jäger (Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)

With the advent of the CERN-LHC, unequaled opportunities have emerged for the discovery of the Higgs boson, which is considered as the key to our understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking. In order to spot this illustrious particle and to pin down its properties by making the most of a hadron collider's capabilities, accurate measurements for various production channels have to be matched with precision calculations for signal and background processes.

This talk will provide an overview of the most promising search strategies for the Higgs boson at the LHC. In passing, I will sketch technical challenges of the associated computations required from the perturbationist and discuss phenomenological implications of precise predictions for selected production modes.