Scope of Higgs production in association with a bottom quark pair in probing the Higgs sector of the NMSSM at the LHC

Mosleh Almarashi, Stefano Moretti

We review the potential of the LHC to detect a very light CP-odd Higgs boson of the NMSSM, $a_1$, through its direct production in association with a bottom-quark pair at large tan…