2014/12/18 by Nils-Erik Bomark, Bomark, Nils-Erik, Stefano Moretti +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.5815
6 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of "Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders (CHARGED 2014)", September 2014, Uppsala, Sweden. Typos and references corrected
arxiv created 2015/02/18 · arxiv updated 2015/02/19
The discovery of a light, singlet-like pseudoscalar Higgs boson, A1, 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 A1 in the decays of one of the heavier scalar Higgs bosons of the NMSSM. We find the production of pairs of the A1, 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 A1 could lead to its detection at the LHC.