Precise predictions for Higgs production in neutralino decays in the complex MSSM

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)108zbMATH Open1269.81212arXiv0909.5165OpenAlexW3101757160MaRDI QIDQ359015FDOQ359015

A. C. Fowler, G. Weiglein

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Complete one-loop results are obtained for the class of processes chi^0_i->chi^0_j h_a in the MSSM where all parameters entering this process beyond lowest order are allowed to have arbitrary CP-violating phases. An on-shell renormalisation scheme is worked out for the chargino-neutralino sector that properly takes account of imaginary parts arising from complex parameters and from absorptive parts of loop integrals. The genuine vertex contributions to the neutralino decay amplitudes are combined with two-loop propagator-type corrections for the outgoing Higgs boson. In this way the currently most precise prediction for this class of processes is obtained. The numerical impact of the genuine vertex corrections is studied for several examples of CP-conserving and CP-violating scenarios. We find that significant effects on the decay widths and branching ratios are possible even in the CP-conserving MSSM. In the CP-violating CPX benchmark scenario the corrections to the decay width are found to be particularly large, namely, of order 45% for a Higgs mass of 40 GeV. This parameter region of the CPX scenario where a very light Higgs boson is unexcluded by present data is analysed in detail. We find that in this parameter region, which will be difficult to cover by standard Higgs search channels at the LHC, the branching ratio for the decay chi^0_2->chi^0_1 h_1 is large. This may offer good prospects to detect such a light Higgs boson in cascade decays of supersymmetric particles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5165

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetryphenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Cites Work

• The implementation of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in \textit{FeynArts} and \textit{FormCalc}
• Generating Feynman diagrams and amplitudes with FeynArts 3
• Techniques for one-loop calculations in constrained differential renormalization
• \textit{FeynHiggs}: A program for the calculation of the masses of the neutral \({\mathcal C}P\)-even Higgs bosons in the MSSM
• WAVE FUNCTION RENORMALIZATION PRESCRIPTION OF UNSTABLE PARTICLE

Cited In (2)

• THE EFFECT OF SUPERSYMMETRIC CP PHASES ON $q\bar q$ ANNIHILATIONS INTO CHARGINOS AND NEUTRALINOS
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Uses Software

• FeynHiggs
• FeynArts
• FormCalc
• LoopTools

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