Probing the electroweak sector at the LHC

The status quo of particle physics after the first data taking at the Large Hadron Collider is:
a light Higgs particle has been discovered that is perfectly compatible with the electroweak
Standard Model (SM). While this is undoubtedly a historic step in particle physics, it is not
entirely satisfactory, as in its current state the SM leaves many questions unanswered.

The measurement of the production of the electroweak gauge bosons and the Higgs scalar
will play a central role for future tests of the Standard Model and in searches of new
physics at the TeV scale. A global interpretation of these measurements will be our ultimate tool to characterize the electroweak sector of the SM.