Invisible Higgs decays and the Galactic Center Excess in the NMSSM

24 Aug 2015, 14:50
20m
Cedar House

Cedar House

Precision Computations and Monte Carlo Tools, all areas Precision SUSY/Higgs/MCTools

Speaker

Anja Butter

Description

The NMSSM is, for several reasons, an attractive extension of the Standard Model. One of them is that the gamma ray excess from the galactic center can be explained with an NMSSM neutralino annihilating through a light pseudoscalar. Such light dark matter candidate will lead to invisible Higgs decays at the LHC. Using SFitter we connect the galactic center excess with the observed dark matter relic density and invisible Higgs decays. Typical branching ratios of a SM-like Higgs to NMSSN neutralinos can easily reach 30%.

Primary authors

Anja Butter Dirk Zerwas (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR)) Michael Rauch (Univ. Karlsruhe, KIT) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

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