2003/03/12 by Aseshkrishna Datta, A. Djouadi, Abdelhak Djouadi +2 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quark #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Supersymmetry #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.12.012
published as Nucl.Phys. B681 (2004) 31-64 · 44 pages, latex, 17 figures
arxiv created 2003/03/12 · openalex publication_date 2004/01/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, we study the production of Higgs bosons at the Large Hadron Collider via cascade decays of scalar quarks and gluinos. We focus on the cascades involving heavier charginos and neutralinos, which decay into the neutral h,A,H and charged H^± bosons and lighter charginos and neutralinos, but we will also discuss direct decays of third--generation squarks into their lighter partners and Higgs bosons as well as top quark decays into H^± bosons. We show that the production rates of relatively light Higgs bosons, MΦ\lsim 250 GeV, via these mechanisms can be rather large in some areas of the parameter space. Performing a fast detector simulation analysis that takes into account the signals and the various backgrounds, we show that the detection of the neutral Higgs bosons through their decays into bb pairs, and of the charged Higgs particles through the τ^± ν signature, is possible at the LHC.