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Does LEP prefer the NMSSM?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the naturalness of electroweak symmetry breaking and baryogenesis in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM). Our study is motivated by the recent LEP bounds on the Higgs boson mass which severely constrains the low \tan\beta region of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). We show that the low \tan \beta region of the NMSSM is clearly favoured over the MSSM with regard to the physical Higgs boson mass, fine-tuning, and electroweak baryogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006198,
  title  = {Does LEP prefer the NMSSM?},
  author = {M. Bastero-Gil and C. Hugonie and S. F. King and D. P. Roy and S. Vempati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006198},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, Latex, 3 eps figures, typos corrected, reference added