25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Higgs production and decay in SUSY with CP violation

27 Jul 2007, 16:50
20m
Small Auditorium A (Karlsruhe University)

Small Auditorium A

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
Parallel Talk Colliders - Higgs Phenomenology Colliders - Higgs Phenomenology 4 (Theory)

Speaker

Dr Stefan Hesselbach (University of Southampton)

Description

In SUSY models with CP violation the production cross sections and decay branching ratios of Higgs bosons may strongly depend on the new CP-violating phases which has to be taken into account in the Higgs search at LHC. In the MSSM with explicit CP violation we analyze the phase dependence of the di-photon decay channel of neutral Higgs bosons, which is an important detection channel for light Higgs bosons at the LHC, at lowest order of the Higgs-sparticle couplings. Complementary to previous studies we focus on SUSY scenarios with low mass sparticle spectrum where the contributions of the sparticles in the loops can have a significant impact on the branching ratio (BR). In some regions of the MSSM parameter space the BR can vary by more than one order of magnitude with the SUSY CP phases. Also in the NMSSM with an additional singlet/singlino superfield, where CP violation results in the mixing of all five neutral Higgs eigenstates, the new CP violating phases can have strong implications on the Higgs phenomenology.

Authors

Dr Poulose Poulose (University of Southampton) Dr Stefan Hesselbach (University of Southampton)

Co-authors

Mr Shoaib Munir (University of Southampton) Dr Stefano Moretti (University of Southampton)

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