When the NMSSM Meets the LHC: Conventional Higgs Searches and the Power of Mono-Higgs
by
Sebastian Baum(Stockholm University)
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Europe/Stockholm
Å12167
Å12167
Description
Abstract:
The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) augments the MSSM particle content with an additional singlet superfield. The 125 GeV Standard Model-like Higgs and naturalness generically prefer regions of NMSSM parameter space featuring a light Higgs and neutralino spectrum as well as large couplings between the Higgs doublets and the NMSSM singlet. The additional states and large couplings modify the collider phenomenology of the NMSSM's Higgs sector substantially with respect to the MSSM. This warrants specific search strategies beyond those for MSSM Higgses. I will discuss how Higgs to Higgs and Higgs to neutralino decays can be employed to search for the NMSSM at the LHC. In particular, I will show the potential of the mono-Higgs signature to explore interesting regions of NMSSM parameter space.
