Published December 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Dark matter and collider phenomenology with two light supersymmetric Higgs bosons

  • 1. Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1-3RH (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Max Planck Institut fur Physik, Fohringer Ring 6, 80805 Munich (Germany)

Description

It has been suggested that two different excesses of events observed at CERN LEP could be interpreted as the CP-even Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with masses of approximately 98 and 114 GeV. If this is the case, the entire MSSM-Higgs sector is required to be light. In this article, we explore such a scenario in detail. We constrain the Higgs and supersymmetric spectrum using B physics constraints as well as the magnetic moment of the muon. We then point out the implications for neutralino dark matter--next generation direct detection experiments will be sensitive to all MSSM models with such a Higgs sector. Finally, we find that all models outside a very narrow corridor of parameter space have a charged Higgs boson which will be observed at the CERN LHC. In those exceptional models which do not contain an observable charged Higgs, a light top squark will always be seen at the LHC, and likely at the Tevatron

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 115005-115005.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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