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Many Light Higgs Bosons in the NMSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-03-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The next-to-minimal supersymmetric model with a light doublet-like CP-odd Higgs boson and small tanβ\tan \beta can satisfy all experimental limits on Higgs bosons even with light superpartners. In these scenarios, the two lightest CP-even Higgs bosons, \hi\hi and \hii\hii, and the charged Higgs boson, \hp\hp, can all be light enough to be produced at LEP and yet have decays that have not been looked for or are poorly constrained by existing collider experiments. The channel \hi\ai\ai\hi\to \ai\ai (where \ai\ai is the lightest CP-odd boson and has mass below 2mb2m_b) with \aiτ+τ\ai\to \tau^+\tau^- or 2j2j is still awaiting LEP constraints for \mhi>86\gev\mhi>86\gev or 82\gev82\gev, respectively. LEP data may also contain \epem\hii\ai\epem\to \hii\ai events where \hiiZ\ai\hii\to Z\ai is the dominant decay, a channel that was never examined. Decays of the charged Higgs bosons are often dominated by H±W±()\aiH^\pm \to W^{\pm (\star)} \ai with \aigg,ccˉ,τ+τ\ai \to gg,c \bar c, \tau^+ \tau^-. This is a channel that has so far been ignored in the search for t\hpbt\to \hp b decays at the Tevatron. A specialized analysis might reveal a signal. The light \ai\ai might be within the reach of BB factories via Υγ\ai\Upsilon\to \gamma \ai decays. We study typical mass ranges and branching ratios of Higgs bosons in this scenario and compare these scenarios where the \ai\ai has a large doublet component to the more general scenarios with arbitrary singlet component for the \ai\ai.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3537,
  title  = {Many Light Higgs Bosons in the NMSSM},
  author = {Radovan Dermisek and John F. Gunion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3537},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 47 figures

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