If SUSY kinematically accessible

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• If SUSY kinematically accessible
• Higgses can decay directly to or come from
  decays of SUSY particles
• Associated production modes eg,
  squark-squark-Higgs
• Light SUSY particles suppress or enhance loop
  induced production or decays

Higgs into sparticle decay modes can compete with
SM modes

Further source of Higges from cascade decays of
heavy SUSY particles (Filip to discuss)
Squarks Gluinos can give many more
Higgses than direct production !
little cascade from neutralinos/charginos
big cascade from neutralinos/charginos
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Useful for filling MSSM decoupling region eg,
Higgs ? SUSY.
M(2)180 GeV, mu-500 GeV, m(all sleptons)250
GeV, M(squark,gluino)1 TeV
Philosophy so far scan parameter space to
optimise leptonic signals (easiest) Discovery
areas for different channels correspond to
different SUSY configurations Problem
discovery plots cannot be superimposed (whats
true LHC potential ?) Alternatively define
SUSY Higgs benchmark points (a la SPS, LHC
points, etc.)
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• Require dedicated study to give suitable set of
  benchmark points

• Snowmass points and slopes SPS
• hep-ph/0202233
• Chosen with SUSY space rather
• than Higgs space in mind
• 51 mSUGRA, 2 GSMB, 1 AMSB
• Only 4 points in usual Higgs plane. 1a,
• 4 (mSUGRA) 7,8 GMSB
• CMS test points GMSB_at_tan(b)15,
• MSUGRA (only LM1-4)
• Benchmarks from Carena et al.
• Eur. Phys. J. C 26 601 (2003) not designed
• to take light SUSY particle effects
• into account, except in squark loops
• (gluon-phobic Higgs scenario)

LM2 ----------?
LM3
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LM1
LM4
h,H