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Probing the Higgs Sector of High-Scale SUSY-Breaking Models at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A canonical signature of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is the presence of a neutral Higgs boson with mass bounded from above by about 135 GeV and Standard Model (SM)-like couplings to the electroweak gauge bosons. In this note we investigate the reach of the Tevatron collider for the MSSM Higgs sector parameter space associated with a variety of high-scale minimal models of supersymmetry (SUSY)-breaking, including the Constrained MSSM (CMSSM), minimal Gauge Mediated SUSY-breaking (mGMSB), and minimal Anomaly Mediated SUSY-breaking (mAMSB). We find that the Tevatron can provide strong constraints on these models via Higgs boson searches. Considering a simple projection for the efficiency improvements in the Tevatron analyses, we find that with an integrated luminosity of 16 fb^-1 per detector and an efficiency improvement of 20% compared to the present situation, these models could be probed essentially over their entire ranges of validity. With 40% analysis improvements and 16 fb^-1, our projection shows that evidence at the 3-sigma level for the light Higgs boson could be expected in extended regions of parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.1011.5304,
  title  = {Probing the Higgs Sector of High-Scale SUSY-Breaking Models at the Tevatron},
  author = {Marcela Carena and Patrick Draper and Sven Heinemeyer and Tao Liu and Carlos E. M. Wagner and Georg Weiglein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5304},
  year   = {2011}
}

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