Decoupling MSSM Higgs Sector and Heavy Higgs Decay

Abstract

The decoupling limit in the MSSM Higgs sector is the most likely scenario in light of the Higgs discovery. This scenario is further constrained by MSSM Higgs search bounds and flavor observables. We perform a comprehensive scan of MSSM parameters and update the constraints on the decoupling MSSM Higgs sector in terms of 8 TeV LHC data. We highlight the effect of light SUSY spectrum in the heavy neutral Higgs decay in the decoupling limit. We find that the chargino and neutralino decay mode can reach at most 40% and 20% branching ratio, respectively. In particular, the invisible decay mode BR(H^0(A^0) -> \tildeχ^0_1\tildeχ^0_1) increases with increasing Bino LSP mass and is between 10%-15% (20%) for 30 \tilde{t}_1\tilde{t}_1^\ast and 60% for H^0/A^0 -> \tildeτ_1\tildeτ_2^\ast+\tildeτ_1^\ast\tildeτ_2. The branching fractions are less than 10% for H^0 -> h^0h^0 and 1% for A^0 -> h^0Z for m_A>400 GeV. The charged Higgs decays to neutralino plus chargino and sfermions with branching ratio as large as 40% and 60%, respectively. Moreover, the exclusion limit of leading MSSM Higgs search channel, namely gg,b\bar{b} -> H^0, A^0 -> tau^+ tau^-, is extrapolated to 14 TeV LHC with high luminosities. It turns out that the tau tau mode can essentially exclude regime with tanβ>20 for L=300 fb^{-1} and tanβ>15 for L=3000 fb^{-1}.