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# Revisiting a light NMSSM pseudoscalar at the LHC

Bomark, Nils-Erik, Moretti, Stefano, Munir, Shoaib and Roszkowski, Leszek (2014) Revisiting a light NMSSM pseudoscalar at the LHC. Proceedings of Science, Charged2014, [029].

Record type: Article

## Abstract

The discovery of a light, singlet-like pseudoscalar Higgs boson, $A_1$, of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) could provide a hallmark signature of non-minimal supersymmetry. We review here the potential of the LHC to probe such a light $A_1$ in the decays of one of the heavier scalar Higgs bosons of the NMSSM. We find the production of pairs of the $A_1$, with a mass below 60 GeV or so, via decays of the two lightest scalar states to be especially promising, for an integrated luminosity as low as 30/fb. For heavier masses, the decay of the heaviest scalar into a $Z$ boson and an $A_1$ could lead to its detection at the LHC.

Published date: 18 December 2014
Additional Information: 6 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of "Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders (CHARGED 2014)", September 2014, Uppsala, Sweden. Typos and references corrected
Keywords: hep-ph
Organisations: Theory Group

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 411786
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411786
PURE UUID: 71fd9403-fc99-455e-8498-fa669e9878ce

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 26 Jun 2017 16:30

## Contributors

Author: Nils-Erik Bomark
Author: Stefano Moretti
Author: Shoaib Munir
Author: Leszek Roszkowski