Discovery Reach of Charged MSSM Higgs Bosons at CMS

TL;DR

This paper assesses the potential for discovering charged MSSM Higgs bosons at CMS, analyzing the impact of SUSY parameters on detection sensitivity using recent experimental and theoretical data.

Contribution

It combines CMS simulation results with advanced MSSM predictions to evaluate discovery prospects, highlighting the influence of SUSY parameters on detection reach.

Findings

Discovery contours depend on MSSM parameters, especially μ and tanβ.

Variation in μ can shift discovery reach in tanβ by up to 40.

Analysis covers cases where M_H+ is below and above the top quark mass.

Abstract

We review the 5 sigma discovery contours for the charged MSSM Higgs boson at the CMS experiment with 30/fb for the two cases M_H+ < m_t and M_H+ > m_t. In order to analyze the search reach we combine the latest results for the CMS experimental sensitivities based on full simulation studies with state-of-the-art theoretical predictions of MSSM Higgs-boson production and decay properties. Special emphasis is put on the SUSY parameter dependence of the 5 sigma contours. The variation of $\mu$ can shift the prospective discovery reach in tan_beta by up to Delta tan_beta = 40.