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A Light Supersymmetric Higgs Sector Hidden by a Standard Model-like Higgs

Antonio Delgado·Germano Nardini·Mariano Quiros
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Extending the Higgs sector of the MSSM by triplets alleviates the little hierarchy problem and naturally allows for enhancements in the diphoton decay rate of the lightest CP-even Higgs h. In the present paper we analyze in detail the Higgs phenomenology of this theory with m_h~126 GeV. We mostly focus on a light Higgs sector where the pseudoscalar A, the next-to-lightest CP-even scalar H and the charged H^\pm Higgses are naturally at the electroweak scale. It turns out that for any value m_A > m_h there is a parameter region at small tan(beta) where the CP-even Higgs sector appears at colliders as the SM one, except for loop-induced corrections. Notably the existence of this SM-like point, which is absent in the MSSM, is shared with supersymmetric theories where there are extra singlets. We also highlight a second parameter region at small m_A and small tan(beta) where the h signal strengths, diphoton channel included, are SM-like except those of bottoms and taus which can have at most a 10-15 % splitting. Improvements in the A and H^\pm searches are worthwhile in order to discriminate this scenario from the SM.

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Antonio Delgado, Germano Nardini, Mariano Quiros. 2013-03-04. A Light Supersymmetric Higgs Sector Hidden by a Standard Model-like Higgs. https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0800

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