Search for neutral and charged MSSM Higgs bosons in ATLAS

TL;DR

This paper reports on searches for MSSM Higgs bosons using ATLAS data, finding no deviations from the Standard Model and setting exclusion limits on certain decay channels.

Contribution

First search for MSSM Higgs bosons in multiple channels using early ATLAS data, establishing exclusion limits and confirming SM consistency.

Findings

No evidence of MSSM Higgs bosons observed.

Exclusion limits set for H+->cs, H+->taunu, and H->tautau channels.

Results consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Abstract

The results of Higgs boson searches in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector based on collected data corresponding to up to 36 pb-1 are presented. Searches in the channels H+->cs, H+->taunu, and H->tautau are discussed. All observations agree with the expectation of the Standard Model (SM)-only hypothesis and thus exclusion limits are derived.