Published April 1, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

What e+e- collider could make a ''no-lose'' search for minimum supersymmetric standard model Higgs bosons?

  • 1. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)

Description

The lightest CP-even Higgs boson h in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) has a mass upper bound depending on the top quark and squark masses. An e+e- collider with enough energy and luminosity to produce h+Z at measurable rates up to the maximum h mass would cover the entire MSSM parameter space if h+A production was also searched for. We explore the energy and/or luminosity needed for various top quark and squark masses. For mt=150 GeV and a 1 TeV supersymmetric mass scale, a 230 GeV collider with 10 fb-1 luminosity would suffice, based on e+e-→hZ,hA→ττjj signals. With future b tagging, other channels will contribute important additional signals and the luminosity requirements will be lowered by up to an order of magnitude

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
47
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 3041-3044.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ