Distinguishing a MSSM Higgs Boson from the SM Higgs Boson at a Linear Collider

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2001-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0106116v3

Phys.Rev.D65:055005,2002; Erratum-ibid.D65:099902,2002

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

41 pages, 8 figures, typographical errors corrected, version published by journal

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.055005

The decoupling properties of the Higgs sector in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) imply that a light CP-even Higgs boson discovered at the Tevatron or LHC may closely resemble the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. In this paper, we investigate how precision measurements of Higgs properties at a Linear Collider (LC) can distinguish between a CP-even Higgs boson of the MSSM and the SM Higgs boson. We review the expected theoretical behavior of the partial widths and branching ratios for decays of the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons with significant couplings to the W and Z bosons, including the leading radiative corrections to the mixing angle alpha and tan beta-enhanced vertex corrections. The general expectation is that the Higgs couplings to W+W-, ZZ, c cbar and t tbar should quickly approach their SM values for increasing CP-odd Higgs mass mA, while the couplings to b bbar and tau+ tau- do so more slowly. Using the expected experimental and theoretical accuracy in determining SM branching ratios and partial widths, we demonstrate the sensitivity of measurements at the LC to variations in the MSSM parameters, with particular attention to the decoupling limit. For a wide range of MSSM parameters, the LC is sensitive to mA ~ 600 GeV almost independently of tan beta. For large values of tan beta and some specific choices of MSSM parameters [e.g., A_t mu < 0 and |A_t| ~ |mu| ~ O(M_S)], one of the CP-even Higgs bosons can be SM-like independent of the value of mA. In the case of large deviations from the SM, we present a procedure using Higgs coupling measurements to extract the supersymmetric correction to the relation between the b quark mass and Yukawa coupling.

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