Charged Higgs in MSSM and Beyond

TL;DR

This study explores the mass ranges and decay patterns of charged Higgs bosons in various MSSM extensions, highlighting how decay modes can distinguish models and informing future collider searches.

Contribution

It provides a comparative numerical analysis of charged Higgs properties across CMSSM, NMSSM, and UMSSM, emphasizing decay channels and their potential for experimental differentiation.

Findings

Wide mass range for charged Higgs in UMSSM and NMSSM.

Dominant decay mode is H±→tb with ~80% BR.

Charged Higgs decays into charginos and neutralinos up to 25% in NMSSM and UMSSM.

Abstract

We conduct a numerical study over the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), Next-to-MSSM (NMSSM) and $U(1)$ extended MSSM (UMSSM) to probe the allowed mass ranges of the charged Higgs boson and its dominant decay patterns, which might come into prominence in near future collider experiments. {We present results obtained from a limited scan for CMSSM} as a basis and compare its predictions with the extended models. We observe within our data that a wide mass range is allowed as $0.5(1) \lesssim m_{H^{\pm}} \lesssim 17$ TeV in UMSSM (NMSSM). We find that the dominant decay channel is mostly $H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb$ such that ${\rm BR}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb) \sim 80\%$. While this mode remains dominant over the whole allowed parameter space of CMSSM, we realize some special domains in the NMSSM and UMSSM, in which ${\rm BR}(H^{\pm}\rightarrow tb) \lesssim 10\%$. In this context, the decay patterns of the charged Higgs can play a significant role to distinguish among the SUSY models. In addition to the $tb$ decay mode, we find that the narrow mass scale in CMSSM allows only the decay modes for the charged Higgs boson to $\tau\nu$ ($\sim 16\%$), and their supersymmetric partners $\tilde{\tau}\tilde{\nu}$ ($\sim 13\%$). On the other hand, it is possible to realize the mode in NMSSM and UMSSM in which the charged Higgs boson decays into a chargino and neutralino pair up to about $25\%$. {This decay mode requires non-universal boundary conditions within the MSSM framework to be available, since CMSSM yields ${\rm BR} (H^{\pm}\rightarrow \tilde{\chi}_{1}^{0}\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}) \lesssim 1\%$.} It can also be probed in near future collider experiments through the missing energy and CP-violation measurements...