LHC Signals of a Heavy CP-even Higgs Boson in the NMSSM via Decays into a ZZ and a Light CP-odd Higgs State

Sep, 2011
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 85 (2012) 017701
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Report number:
  • SHEP-11-19

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the Za1Za_1 decay mode of a heavy CP-even Higgs boson of the NMSSM, h2h_2, where a1a_1 is the lightest CP-odd Higgs state of this scenario, the former produced in association with a bottom-antibottom pair, and find that, despite small event rates, a significant (in fact essentially background free) signal should be extractable at the LHC with very high luminosity, so long that a ZjjZ\to jj (where jj represents a jet) and a1τ+τa_1\to \tau^+\tau^- final state is exploited, in presence of bb-tagging
Note:
  • 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
  • 12.60.Fr
  • 14.80.Da
  • luminosity: high
  • minimal supersymmetric standard model
  • Higgs particle
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • decay modes
  • background