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Generations of Higgs Bosons in Supersymmetric Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We examine extensions of the MSSM with more than one generation of Higgs bosons. If one assumes that a symmetry eliminates the tree-level FCNC, then the extra scalar bosons do not acquire VEVs, do not couple to fermions and do not mix with the ordinary Higgs bosons; the lightest is absolutely stable. The two lightest neutral scalars, ϕS\phi_S, and ϕP\phi_P, are degenerate in mass, and the mass difference between those and the lightest charged scalar, ϕ+\phi_+, is calculated. For most of the parameter space, the charged scalar is between a hundred MeV and a few GeV heavier than the neutral scalars. The ϕ+\phi_+ will decay at the vertex; the signature for this decay will be like that of a chargino with a nearly degenerate undetected neutralino. Next, the possibility that the symmetry that eliminates FCNC is a flavor symmetry is discussed. In an example, the U(2) model, tree-level FCNC processes can be calculated in terms of quark masses. The strongest constraint on this model is from DDˉD-\bar{D} mixing, which should be within an order of magnitude of the current bound.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005113,
  title  = {Generations of Higgs Bosons in Supersymmetric Models},
  author = {Alfredo Aranda and Marc Sher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005113},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Substantial changes in the discussion of the scalar mass differences, due to a sign error in a Feynman rule. Version to appear in Physical Review D