Discovering the Higgs Bosons of Minimal Supersymmetry with Tau Leptons and a Bottom Quark

Abstract

We investigate the prospects for the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider or at the Fermilab Tevatron of neutral Higgs bosons through the channel where the Higgs are produced together with a single bottom quark and the Higgs decays into a pair of tau leptons, $bg\to b{\varphi }^0\to b{\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-},{\varphi }^0=h^0,H^0,A^0$. We work within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric model. The dominant physics background from the production of $b{\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$, $j{\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ ($j=g,u,d,s,c$), $b\bar{b}{W}^{+}{W}^{-}$, $W+2j$ and $Wbj$ is calculated with realistic acceptance cuts and efficiencies. Promising results are found for the CP-odd pseudoscalar ($A^0$) and the heavier CP-even scalar ($H^0$) Higgs bosons with masses up to one TeV.

14 pages, 7 figures

References in corpus (5)

• Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in Minimal Low Energy Supersymmetric Models
• Production of a W boson and two jets with one b-quark tag
• Search for Heavy Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons with CMS: Reach and Higgs-Mass Precision
• Distributions for MSSM Higgs boson + jet production at hadron colliders
• SUSY QCD Corrections to Associated Higgs-bottom Quark Production

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Standard Model couplings and collider signatures of a light scalar
• NLO QCD corrections to Z b anti-b production with massive bottom quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron
• Probing the light Higgs pole resonance annihilation of dark matter in the light of XENON100 and CDMS-II observations
• Implications of naturalness for the heavy Higgs bosons of supersymmetry