New limits on the mass of neutral Higgses in general models

In general electroweak models with weakly coupled (and otherwise arbitrary) Higgs sector there always exists in the spectrum a scalar state with mass controlled by the electroweak scale. A new and simple recipe to compute an analytical tree-level upper bound on the mass of this light scalar is given. We compare this new bound with similar ones existing in the literature and show how to extract extra information on heavier neutral scalars in the spectrum from the interplay of independent bounds. Production of these states at future colliders is addressed and the implications for the decoupling limit in which only one Higgs is expected to remain light are discussed.

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14 pages, LaTeX Report-no: DESY 96-133, FTUV/96-43, IFIC/96-51, IEM-FT-136/96

electroweak interaction
Higgs particle: neutral particle
Higgs particle: mass
upper limit
supersymmetry
decoupling

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