The Anatomy of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking. II: The Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model
Abdelhak Djouadi
TL;DR
This review provides a comprehensive, technically detailed account of the MSSM Higgs sector, emphasizing how radiative corrections elevate the lightest Higgs mass and shape its couplings across multiple parameter regimes. It systematically contrasts MSSM Higgs phenomenology with general 2HDMs, delineating decoupling, anti-decoupling, and intermediate-coupling behaviors and their collider implications. The work further investigates Higgs decays, production mechanisms, and the influence of SUSY particles on both standard and loop-induced channels, with an emphasis on observable signals at the LHC and future lepton colliders. Finally, it connects Higgs-sector physics to cosmology, discussing neutralino dark matter relic density and annihilation processes, illustrating the MSSM’s broad implications for particle physics and cosmology.
Abstract
The second part of this review is devoted to the Higgs sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The properties of the neutral and charged Higgs bosons of the extended Higgs sector are summarized and their decay modes and production mechanisms at hadron colliders and at future lepton colliders are reviewed.