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Non-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at LEP2

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We discuss the discovery reach of LEP2 for the Higgs sector of a general extension of the MSSM including a single gauge singlet field. This change introduces a new quartic Higgs boson self-coupling which can increase the masses of the CP-even states, and also allows mixing between singlet and non-singlet states which can reduce the couplings of the mass eigenstates to the ZZ. The lightest CP-even Higgs boson is bounded by a parameter Λ\Lambda which takes a maximum value Λmax136146\Lambda_{max}\approx 136-146 GeV for top mass 150195150-195 GeV. We generalise the discussion of the bound to include the entire CP-even spectrum and show how experiment may exclude values of Λ\Lambda smaller than some Λmin\Lambda_{min}. CP-even Higgs boson searches at LEP2 will be able to exclude Λmin81105\Lambda_{min}\approx 81-105 GeV, depending on the machine parameters. We also present exclusion plots in the mAtanβm_A-\tan\beta plane, based on an analysis of CP-even, CP-odd and charged Higgs production processes at LEP2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508346,
  title  = {Non-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at LEP2},
  author = {S. F. King and P. L. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508346},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Plain LaTeX, 33 pages, figures uuencoded and gzipped. Trivial changes and typos corrected for publication in Rhys Rev D