The Higgs Boson and Beyond at the Large Hadron Collider

Forty million times per second, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider detect the products of the highest energy particle collisions ever created in a laboratory. In 2012, a new particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson was discovered. In this talk, Kreis will describe CMS's comprehensive program to test this consistency as more data is collected and statistical uncertainties shrink. The experiment's charged particle trackers, calorimeters, and muon detectors, which total over 100 million individual detecting elements, each play an essential role. Deviations from standard model expectations, such as evidence for Higgs boson decays to dark matter, could help in answering some of the most fundamental questions we have about our universe.