Probing the light neutral Higgs boson scenario of the CP- violating MSSM Higgs sector at the LHC
Probing the light neutral Higgs boson scenario of the CP- violating MSSM Higgs sector at the LHC
In the CP-violating minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), for certain values of the CP-violating phases associated to the universal trilinear couplings (At,Ab) and the gluino mass (M˜g), e.g., ΦCP = 60º or 90º, for MH+ ≲ 140 GeV and tan β ~ 2–5, the lightest Higgs boson mass (MH1) is ≲ 50 GeV. This mass interval is still allowed by results of standard LEP Higgs searches because of a strongly suppressed H1ZZ coupling. However, in the same region of parameter space in which these two conditions occur, the H1H∓W± coupling is enhanced because the two mentioned sets of couplings satisfy a sum rule. In this paper we probe such a light Higgs scenario at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by studying H±H1 associate production, leading to a 4b+ ℓ± +ET signal. We show that the latter is readily accessible at the CERN hadron collider, upon the application of suitable selection cuts against the standard model (SM) backgrounds. Our part on level Monte Carlo (MC) analysis yields ~ 15–45 signal events, completely free of SM background, for L = 10–30 fb-1 of accumulated luminosity, after taking into account the overall efficiency for tagging four b-jets.
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Ghosh, D.K.
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Moretti, S.
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August 2005
Ghosh, D.K.
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Moretti, S.
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Ghosh, D.K. and Moretti, S.
(2005)
Probing the light neutral Higgs boson scenario of the CP- violating MSSM Higgs sector at the LHC.
The European Physical Journal C, 42 (3), .
(doi:10.1140/epjc/s2005-02294-9).
Abstract
In the CP-violating minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), for certain values of the CP-violating phases associated to the universal trilinear couplings (At,Ab) and the gluino mass (M˜g), e.g., ΦCP = 60º or 90º, for MH+ ≲ 140 GeV and tan β ~ 2–5, the lightest Higgs boson mass (MH1) is ≲ 50 GeV. This mass interval is still allowed by results of standard LEP Higgs searches because of a strongly suppressed H1ZZ coupling. However, in the same region of parameter space in which these two conditions occur, the H1H∓W± coupling is enhanced because the two mentioned sets of couplings satisfy a sum rule. In this paper we probe such a light Higgs scenario at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by studying H±H1 associate production, leading to a 4b+ ℓ± +ET signal. We show that the latter is readily accessible at the CERN hadron collider, upon the application of suitable selection cuts against the standard model (SM) backgrounds. Our part on level Monte Carlo (MC) analysis yields ~ 15–45 signal events, completely free of SM background, for L = 10–30 fb-1 of accumulated luminosity, after taking into account the overall efficiency for tagging four b-jets.
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Published date: August 2005
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