We study the scope of the Large Hadron Collider in accessing a neutral Higgs boson of the B−L Supersymmetric Standard Model. After assessing the surviving parameter space configurations following the Run 1 data taking, we investigate the possibilities of detecting this object during Run 2. For the model configurations in which the mixing between such a state and the discovered Standard Model-like Higgs boson is non-negligible, there exist several channels enabling its discovery over a mass range spanning from ≈140 to ≈ 500 GeV. For a lighter Higgs state, with mass of order 140 GeV, three channels are accessible: γγ, Zγ and ZZ, wherein the Z boson decays leptonically. For a heavier Higgs state, with mass above 250 GeV (i.e., twice the mass of the Higgs state discovered in 2012), the hallmark signature is its decay in two such 125 GeV scalars, h′→hh, where hh→bbˉγγ. In all such cases, significances above discovery can occur for already planned luminosities at the CERN machine.
@article{arxiv.1601.07934,
title = {LHC signals of a BLSSM CP-even Higgs boson},
author = {A. Hammad and S. Khalil and S. Moretti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07934},
year = {2016}
}