Abstract
We explore the potential of the Large Hadron Collider to observe the h1→a1a1→4μ signal from the lightest scalar Higgs boson (h1) decaying into the two lightest pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a1), followed by their decays into four muons in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM). The signature under study applies to the region of the NMSSM parameter space in which ma1<2mτ, which has not been studied previously. In such a scenario, the suggested strategy of searching for a four-muon signal with the appropriate background suppression would provide a powerful method to discover the lightest CP-even and CP-odd NMSSM Higgs bosons h1 and a1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 075021 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 26 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)