TY - JOUR
T1 - Implications of naturalness for the heavy Higgs bosons of supersymmetry
AU - Bae, Kyu Jung
AU - Baer, Howard
AU - Barger, Vernon
AU - Mickelson, Dan
AU - Savoy, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Physical Society.
PY - 2014/10/14
Y1 - 2014/10/14
N2 - Recently, it has been argued that various measures of supersymmetric naturalness - electroweak, Higgs mass and EENZ/BG - when applied consistently, concur with one another and make very specific predictions for natural supersymmetric spectra. Highly natural spectra are characterized by light Higgsinos with mass not too far from mh and well-mixed but TeV-scale third generation squarks. We apply the unified naturalness measure to the case of heavy Higgs bosons A, H and H±. We find that their masses are bounded from above by naturalness depending on tanβ: e.g. for 10% fine-tuning and tanβ∼10, we expect mA≲2.5TeV whilst for 3% fine-tuning and tanβ as high as 50, then mA≲8TeV. Furthermore, the presence of light Higgsinos seriously alters the heavy Higgs boson branching ratios, thus diminishing prospects for usual searches into standard model final states, while new discovery possibilities arise due to the supersymmetric decay modes. The heavy supersymmetric decay modes tend to be H,A,H±→W,Z, or h+ET+soft tracks so that single heavy Higgs production is characterized by the presence of high pT W, Z or h bosons plus missing ET. These new heavy Higgs boson signatures seem to be challenging to extract from SM backgrounds.
AB - Recently, it has been argued that various measures of supersymmetric naturalness - electroweak, Higgs mass and EENZ/BG - when applied consistently, concur with one another and make very specific predictions for natural supersymmetric spectra. Highly natural spectra are characterized by light Higgsinos with mass not too far from mh and well-mixed but TeV-scale third generation squarks. We apply the unified naturalness measure to the case of heavy Higgs bosons A, H and H±. We find that their masses are bounded from above by naturalness depending on tanβ: e.g. for 10% fine-tuning and tanβ∼10, we expect mA≲2.5TeV whilst for 3% fine-tuning and tanβ as high as 50, then mA≲8TeV. Furthermore, the presence of light Higgsinos seriously alters the heavy Higgs boson branching ratios, thus diminishing prospects for usual searches into standard model final states, while new discovery possibilities arise due to the supersymmetric decay modes. The heavy supersymmetric decay modes tend to be H,A,H±→W,Z, or h+ET+soft tracks so that single heavy Higgs production is characterized by the presence of high pT W, Z or h bosons plus missing ET. These new heavy Higgs boson signatures seem to be challenging to extract from SM backgrounds.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.075010
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.075010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908179399
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 90
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 7
M1 - 075010
ER -