NMSSM Higgs Discovery at the LHC

Abstract

We demonstrate that Higgs discovery at the LHC is possible in the context of the NMSSM even for those scenarios such that the only strongly produced Higgs boson is a very SM-like CP-even scalar which decays almost entirely to a pair of relatvely light CP-odd states. In combination with other search channels, we are on the verge of demonstrating that detection of at least one of the NMSSM Higgs bosons is guaranteed at the LHC for accumulated luminosity of $300{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$.

8 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the Les Houches Workshop 2003: ``Physics at TeV Colliders''

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