Precision Tests of the MSSM

Abstract

The LEP data and the measurement of $M_W$ confirm the electro weak symmetry breaking by the Higgs mechanism with (2--3)\% accuracy. For the Higgs boson mass, fits to the present data (without the SLD result) give $M_h=121_{-118}^{+207}$ GeV and $M_h<800$ GeV at 95\% C.L. We analyze those fits from the point of view of the impact of different measurements on the final result for $M_h$. All the relevant observables can be grouped into two categories: those which correlate $M_h$ with $m_t$ and those which constrain the range of $m_t$. Using this classification we discuss potential improvements in the limits on $M_h$, anticipating improvements in the precision of the data. Also the sensitivity of the limits on $M_h$ to the value of ${\alpha }_s(M_Z)$ is discussed in a toy model which reproduces all the results of the SM but the $Z^0\to \bar{b}b$ width is increased by hand so that $R_b=0.22$ and, in consequence, the fitted value of ${\alpha }_s(M_Z)\approx 0.11$ (qualitatively similar situation occurs in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with light chargino and right--handed top squark).

15 pages, LaTeX; 9 postscript figures in a separate uuencoded Z-compressed file. New SLD result included in the fit. Two figures added

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