24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
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Search for Higgs in NMSSM and Hidden Valley models

28 Jul 2009, 14:35
20m
McGregor Center, Room B

McGregor Center, Room B

Wayne State University
Higgs Physics Higgs Physics II

Speaker

Dr Andy Haas (SLAC)

Description

We report on a first search for production of Higgs bosons decaying into neutral long-lived particles (NLLP) which each decay to a bbbar pair, using 3.6 fb^-1 of data recorded with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We search for pairs of displaced vertices in the tracking detector at radii in the range 1.6--20 cm from the beam axis. No significant excess is observed above background, and upper limits are set on the production rate in a hidden-valley benchmark model for a range of Higgs boson masses and NLLP masses and lifetimes. We report on a first search for production of the lightest neutral CP-even Higgs boson (h) in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, where h decays to a pair of neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a), using 4.2/fb of data recorded with the D0 detector at Fermilab. The a bosons are required to either both decay to mu^+mu^- or one to mu^+mu^- and the other to tau^+tau^-. No significant signal is observed, and we set limits on its production as functions of M_a and M_h.

Authors

Aurelio Juste (Fermilab) Dr Eric James (Fermi National Accelerator Lab) Horst Wahl (Florida State University) Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester) TBA

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