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Detecting Heavy Higgs Bosons from Natural SUSY at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-08 v3

Abstract

Supersymmetric models with radiatively-driven naturalness (RNS) enjoy low electroweak fine-tuning whilst respecting LHC search limits on gluinos and top squarks and allowing for mh125m_h\simeq 125 GeV. While the heavier Higgs bosons H, AH,\ A may have TeV-scale masses, the SUSY conserving μ\mu parameter must lie in the few hundred GeV range. Thus, in natural SUSY models there should occur large heavy Higgs boson branching fractions to electroweakinos, with Higgs boson decays to higgsino plus gaugino dominating when they are kinematically accessible. These SUSY decays can open up new avenues for discovery. We investigate the prospects of discovering heavy neutral Higgs bosons HH and AA decaying into light plus heavy chargino pairs which can yield a four isolated lepton plus missing transverse energy signature at the LHC and at a future 100 TeV pppp collider. We find that discovery of heavy Higgs decay to electroweakinos via its 44\ell decay mode is very difficult at HL-LHC. For FCC-hh or SPPC, we study the H, AH,\ A \to SUSY reaction along with dominant physics backgrounds from the Standard Model and devise suitable selection requirements to extract a clean signal for FCC-hh or SPPC with s=100\sqrt{s}=100 TeV, assuming an integrated luminosity of 15 ab1ab^{-1}. We find that while a conventional cut-and-count analysis yields a signal statistical significance greater than 5σ5\sigma for mA,H1.11.65m_{A,H}\sim 1.1-1.65 TeV, a boosted-decision-tree analysis allows for heavy Higgs signal discovery at FCC-hh or SPPC for mA,H12m_{A,H}\sim 1-2 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.2112.02232,
  title  = {Detecting Heavy Higgs Bosons from Natural SUSY at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider},
  author = {Howard Baer and Vernon Barger and Rishabh Jain and Chung Kao and Dibyashree Sengupta and Xerxes Tata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02232},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

20 pages, 11 figures Substantial revision in version.2 includes heavy Higgs boson production from bottom quark fusion processes. Results and conclusions are considerably changed from version.1