Study of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector for the LHC

Dr. Rafael L. Delgado is a young post-doc in the field of strongly interacting effective field theories. His doctoral research has been performed in the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).He has maintained scientific collaborations with Profs. M.J.Herrero (UAM-IFT/CSIC in Madrid) and D.Espriu (UB in Barcelona); and Drs. J.J.Sanz-Cillero (IFT/CSIC and UCM) and A.Castillo (UNAL, Colombia). Furthermore, he has contributed the LHCHXSWG at CERN and performed 3 research stays at the University of Southampton, MPI für Physik in Munich and SLAC. He produced 9 accepted papers in peer-reviewed journals, one of them in the ‘Highlights of 2014’ of the Journal.

• Introduction.- Chiral EW Lagrangian.- Scattering Amplitudes.- Analytical Properties and Unitarization.- Study of the Parameter Space.- Conclusions.