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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.

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@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

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