STANDARD MODEL HIGGS IN THE TWO PHOTON CHANNEL AT CMS

The Higgs Boson is the last undiscovered particle of the minimal Standard Model. It provides a mechanism for generating
mass for quarks and gauge bosons which would otherwise be constrained by symmetries to be massless. Previous experiments,
at LEP and Tevatron, have set the bounds on the mass of the Higgs particle between 114Gev/c^2 and 170Gev/c^2. Because of
the combination of cross-section and detector sensitivity in this range, we expect the two photon final state to be most
sensitive to discovery. In this seminar, I will describe the analysis plan for Higgs at CMS, and the project timescale
for discovery.