A review of the CMS discovery potential for MSSM SUSY massive Higgses A and H

TL;DR

This review assesses CMS's potential to discover MSSM heavy neutral Higgs bosons A and H through decay channels into tau pairs and neutralino pairs, highlighting their complementarity and expected reach in parameter space.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the discovery potential for MSSM heavy Higgs bosons at CMS via two decay channels, including the novel consideration of the neutralino pair channel.

Findings

Both decay channels offer significant discovery potential.

The neutralino pair channel is a promising complementary search mode.

Expected reach varies across MSSM parameter space.

Abstract

The present understanding of the expected MSSM SUSY heavy neutral $A^0$ and $H^0$ Higgs reach at CMS is reviewed. Two Higgs decay channels are considered in this talk: $A,H$ $\to$ $\tau \tau$ and $A,H$ $\to$ $\chi_2^0 \chi_2^0$. Under the assumption that neutralinos and sleptons are not too heavy, the channel $A,H$ $\to$ $\chi_2^0 \chi_2^0$ provides an interesting and complementary channel to the $\tau \tau$ channel. The expected reach in the MSSM parameter space for both channels as well as their discovery potential at the CMS detector will be presented.