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Invisible Higgs Decays to Hooperons in the NMSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-01-27 v2

Abstract

The galactic center excess of gamma ray photons can be naturally explained by light Majorana fermions in combination with a pseudoscalar mediator. The NMSSM provides exactly these ingredients. We show that for neutralinos with a significant singlino component the galactic center excess can be linked to invisible decays of the Standard-Model-like Higgs at the LHC. We find predictions for invisible Higgs branching ratios in excess of 50 percent, easily accessible at the LHC. Constraining the NMSSM through GUT-scale boundary conditions only slightly affects this expectation. Our results complement earlier NMSSM studies of the galactic center excess, which link it to heavy Higgs searches at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02288,
  title  = {Invisible Higgs Decays to Hooperons in the NMSSM},
  author = {Anja Butter and Tilman Plehn and Michael Rauch and Dirk Zerwas and Sophie Henrot-Versillé and Rémi Lafaye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02288},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 24 figures; v2: references added