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Another step towards a no-lose theorem for NMSSM Higgs discovery at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We show how the LHC potential to detect a rather light CP-even Higgs boson of the NMSSM, H1 or H2, decaying into CP-odd Higgs states, A1A1, can be improved if Higgs-strahlung off W bosons and (more marginally) off top-antitop pairs are employed alongside vector boson fusion as production modes. Our results should help extracting at least one Higgs boson signal over the NMSSM parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608233,
  title  = {Another step towards a no-lose theorem for NMSSM Higgs discovery at the LHC},
  author = {S. Moretti and S. Munir and P. Poulose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608233},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 bitmapped figures (for high resolution version, please go to http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/~stefano/NoLoseNMSSM/). Version to appear in PLB. Minor modification in the text. Results and figures unchanged. LaTeX