Summary of the CMS Discovery Potential for the MSSM SUSY Higgses

TL;DR

This paper reviews CMS's potential to discover MSSM SUSY Higgs bosons, highlighting key channels and detector capabilities with 30 fb-1 of data to explore the parameter space effectively.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of CMS's expected sensitivity to MSSM SUSY Higgses based on detailed detector simulations and analysis strategies.

Findings

30 fb-1 data can cover most MSSM parameter space

Tau channels are most effective for heavy Higgs detection

Complementarity exists between tau and neutralino channels

Abstract

This work summarises the present understanding of the expected MSSM SUSY Higgs reach for CMS. Many of the studies presented here result from detailed detector simulations incorporating final CMS detector design and response. With 30 fb-1 the h -> gamma,gamma and h -> bb channels allow to cover most of the MSSM parameter space. For the massive A,H,H+ MSSM Higgs states the channels A,H -> tau,tau and H+ -> tau,nu turn out to be the most profitable ones in terms of mass reach and parameter space coverage. Consequently CMS has made a big effort to trigger efficiently on taus. Provided neutralinos and sleptons are not too heavy, there is an interesting complementarity in the reaches for A,H -> tau,tau and A,H -> chi,chi.