Enlarging Regions of the MSSM Parameter Space for Large tanβ tan ⁡ β via SUSY Decays of the Heavy Higgs Bosons

ANIBAL D. MEDINA; MICHAEL A. SCHMIDT

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

SPRINGER

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2017

1126-6708

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) searches for the heaviest CP-even and CP-odd Higgs H, A to tau-lepton pairs severely constrain the parameter region for large values of tanβ and light Higgs bosons H, A. We demonstrate how the experimental constraint can be avoided by new decays to light third-generation sfermions, whose left-right couplings to H can be maximised in regions of large trilinear couplings Ab, Aτ for sbottoms and staus, or large supersymmetric (SUSY) Higgs mass μ for stops. Due to the tanβ-enhancement in the production cross-sections via gluon-fusion and in association with bottom-quark pairs for H and A, we find that down-type sfermions, in particular, sbottoms perform a better job in allowing more parameter space than up-type sfermions such as stops, which require much larger values of μ to compensate for tanβ. Vacuum stability as well as flavour observables constraints and direct searches for SUSY particles are imposed. We also associate the lightest CP-even Higgs with the observed 125 GeV SM-like Higgs and impose the experimental constraints from the LHC.