21-26 July 2014
Renold Building
Europe/London timezone
NMSSM Higgs Boson Search at the High-Energy Large Hadron Collider
Presented by Prof. Milada Margarete MUEHLLEITNER
on
25 Jul 2014
from
15:10
to
15:30
Content
After the discovery of the Higgs boson with mass around 126 GeV it has
to be investigated if it is the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson or the
Higgs boson of extensions beyond the SM (BSM). Among these,
supersymmetry (SUSY) belongs to the most popular and most intensely
studied BSM theories. The Higgs sector of the Next-to-Minimal
Supersymmetric Extension (NMSSM) consists of seven Higgs bosons, two
charged Higgs bosons, three neutral CP-even and two CP-odd Higgs
bosons. We investigate the discovery prospects of the NMSSM Higgs
bosons at the high-energy option of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
While one of the neutral Higgs bosons is demanded to have a mass
around 126 GeV and SM-like properties, there can be substantially
lighter Higgs bosons which have not been excluded yet by LEP or the
8 TeV run of the LHC. The decays of the heavier Higgs bosons or the
SM-like resonance into a pair of light Higgs states which subsequently
decay into other SM particles can lead to interesting signatures that
can be investigated at the high-energy and high-luminosity run of the
LHC. Furthermore, the discovery signatures of the very light and the
heavy Higgs bosons directly decaying into SM final state particles
will be analysed.
Place
Location: Renold
Room: E7
Co-authors
- Prof. Steve F. KING University of Southampton
- Dr. Roman NEVZOROV University of Adelaide
- Mrs. Anne-Kathrin WALZ Karlsruhe Institute for Technology