Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-01-28
Phys.Rev.D77:035012,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor corrections; version to appear on PRD; now 19 pages and 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.035012
We propose using the lightest CP-even Higgs boson in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) to probe the stop sector. Unlike measuring stop masses in production/decay processes which requires knowledge of masses and mixing angles of other superparticles, the strategy depends little on supersymmetric parameters other than those in the stop sector in a large region of parameter space. We show that measurements of the Higgs mass and the production rate in the gluon fusion channel, the dominant channel at the LHC, allow for determination of two parameters in the stop mass-squared matrix, including the off-diagonal mixing term. This proposal is very effective when stops are light and their mixing is large, which coincides with the region where the electroweak symmetry breaking is minimally fine tuned. We also argue that a lightest CP-even Higgs mass in the upper range of allowed values and a production rate significantly smaller than in the standard model would be difficult to reconcile within the MSSM, except in extreme corners of the parameter space.
Dermisek Radovan
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