Finding the Higgs Boson through Supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method to detect both supersymmetry and the Higgs boson at the LHC by analyzing displaced vertices with b-jets, using a minimal supergravity model with R-parity breaking.

Contribution

It demonstrates how displaced vertex signatures can simultaneously reveal supersymmetry and the Higgs boson within a specific supergravity framework.

Findings

Displaced vertices with b-jets can indicate supersymmetry and Higgs presence.

The minimal supergravity model with R-parity breaking explains neutrino oscillation data.

Abstract

The study of displaced vertices containing two b--jets may provide a double discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): we show how it may not only reveal evidence for supersymmetry, but also provide a way to uncover the Higgs boson necessary in the formulation of the electroweak theory in a large region of the parameter space. We quantify this explicitly using the simplest minimal supergravity model with bilinear breaking of R-parity, which accounts for the observed pattern of neutrino masses and mixings seen in neutrino oscillation experiments.