Has HyperCP Observed a Light Higgs Boson?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The HyperCP collaboration has observed three events for the decay Sigma^+ -> p mu^+ mu^- which may be interpreted as a new particle of mass 214.3 MeV. However, existing data from kaon and B-meson decays severely constrain this interpretation, and it is nontrivial to construct a model consistent with all the data. In this letter we show that the ``HyperCP particle'' can be identified with the light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, the A_1^0. In this model there are regions of parameter space where the A_1^0 can satisfy all the existing constraints from kaon and B-meson decays and mediate Sigma^+ -> p mu^+ mu^- at a level consistent with the HyperCP observation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610362,
title = {Has HyperCP Observed a Light Higgs Boson?},
author = {Xiao-Gang He and Jusak Tandean and G. Valencia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610362},
year = {2008}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures