Natascia Vignaroli

Heavy Resonances in Composite Higgs Models: Phenomenology of Composite Higgs Theories and Strategies for Their Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider Natascia Vignaroli

In this project we study the phenomenology of models where the Higgs is a bound state of a strongly interacting dynamics at the TeV scale and we assess the LHC potential to discover new heavy colored states. The existence of such new heavy resonances is a prediction of composite Higgs models as well of theories with a warped extra-dimension, some of the most compelling scenarios for the physics beyond the Standard Model which are going to be tested at the Large Hadron Collider. In the first part we analyze the bounds on the spectrum of Composite Higgs Models that come from flavor observables. In the second part we propose a novel strategy to discover a heavy gluon and heavy fermions at the LHC.