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Challenges For Non-Minimal Higgs Searches at Future Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In models with a non-minimal Higgs sector, the lightest scalar state may be a neutral CP-even Higgs boson, whose properties are nearly identical to those of the minimal Higgs boson of the Standard Model. In such a scenario, the other Higgs scalars are significantly heavier than mZm_Z; their effects rapidly decouple from the low-energy theory. The decoupling limit of the most general CP-conserving two-Higgs doublet model is formulated. Detection of evidence for a non-minimal Higgs sector in the decoupling limit presents a formidable challenge for Higgs searches at future colliders.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9505240,
  title  = {Challenges For Non-Minimal Higgs Searches at Future Colliders},
  author = {Howard E. Haber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9505240},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, PHYZZX macropackage, uses psfig for embedded figures, postscript file of the full manuscript available via anonymous ftp at ftp://scipp.ucsc.edu/pub/haber/bsmivheh.ps . Two postscript figure files (tahoefig1.ps and tahoefig2.ps) also available separately at the same location