The Higgs sector in the MSSM

Wolfgang Frisch

The Higgs sector in the Standard Model

The Standard model contains one Higgs doublet, that gives masses to
up, down quarks and leptons.

is spontaneously broken down to

The Higgs sector in the Standard Model

In the SM, the global fit suggests a light Higgs boson mass

The Higgs sector in the Standard Model

The SM cannot be the ultimate theory (gravitation). It breaks down at

the Planck scale or even below some energy scale .

Three Higgs boson mass ranges

large top yukawa-coupling

The Higgs sector in the Standard Model

Nothing restricts the SM to survive up to the Planck Scale if the Higgs

mass is in the region from 130-180 GeV. However this is unnatural.

If the cutoff scale is very high, fine tuning of the Higgs boson mass is

a serious problem. The Higgs boson mass depends quadratically on the

cutoff scale .

We need to find a reason to keep the Higgs boson mass light. The mass
of the Higgs boson should be located in the electroweak scale.

Idea: There is a symmetry that protects the Higgs boson from receiving
too large corrections.

The concept of Supersymmetry

The Higgs boson self-energy (main contribution comes form top-loop)

superpartner scalar

Both contribution chancel if

MSSM Particle Spectrum

Charged Higgsinos and Winos mix to 2 Charginos

Zino, Photino and neutral Higgsions mix to 4 Neutralions
(Fermions)

(Fermions)

The Higgs potential in the MSSM

CP- conserving at tree-level, since all phases can be absorbed

Higgs sector at tree-level

Two Higgs doublets are required in supersymmetric theories to

generate mass for both "up" type and "down" type quarks and
charged leptons.

The mass eigenstates

Higgs sector at Tree-level

The two Higgs fields expanded in mass eigenstates

is the ratio of the two VEVs

All Higgs sector parameters at tree level are determined by two

parameters

In particular

and

Higgs sector at tree-level

Masses of h0, H0 are Eigenvalues of the following matrix

is the angle that diagonalizes

one obtains

From the equation for

Form the above results

one can derive an upper bound to the

light CP even Higgs boson h0

Higgs sector at tree-level

as a function of

and

The SM does not constrain the value of

Since

In the MSSM the Higgs self-couplings are related to electroweak

couplings.

at tree level

also the Higgs self-coupling is unknown

Higgs sector at tree-level decoupling limit

reaches its upper bound value in the limit of large

Higgs couplings to gauge bosons

Weak boson masses

Gauge boson couplings

Higgs couplings to gauge bosons

Summary of the Higgs couplings to gauge bosons

Higgs couplings to fermions

Couplings relative to SM values

Loop-corrected Higgs mass

radiative corrections must be considered since, dominant effects arise

from loops involving the 3rd generation quarks and squarks and are
proportional to large Yukawa couplings

Squark mixing matrix in interaction eigenstates for

Squark mixing matrix must be diagonalized to describe mass eigenstates

Squark mixing parameters

Top mass in the off diagonal elements leads to a large mixing and a
possible light

Loop-corrected Higgs mass

Maximal mass of the CP-even Higgs boson h0 at one-loop level

dependence
logarithmic sensitivity to stop quark masses

dependence of Higgs mass on

Minimal mixing scenario with

, maximal value at
, Maximal mixing scenario with

Loop-corrected Higgs mass

Maximal Mixing vs Minimal Mixing

Loop-corrected Higgs mass

Maximal Mixing vs Minimal Mixing

MSSM Higgs mass limits after LEP

MSSM Higgs production at LEP

Higgs production and decays at the LHC

Higgs production and decays at the LHC

MSSM Higgs production at Tevatron and LHC for vector boson fusion
processes

Higgs production and decays at the LHC

MSSM Higgs production at Tevatron and LHC for gluon fusion

processes

Higgs branching ratios

Branching ratio of h0 and H0 for small tan beta

Higgs branching ratios

Branching ratio of h0 and H0 for large tan beta

The couplings to down-like fermions are

enhanced.

Charged Higgs branching ratios

LHC Higgs detection

LHC Higgs detection