Higgs Decays to two Neutralinos in GMSB

Speaker: John Mason, Harvard University

When: September 20, 2010 (Mon), 12:30PM to 01:30PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract:
I will discuss the decays of a standard model-like MSSM Higgs boson to pairs of neutralinos, each of which subsequently decays promptly to a photon and a gravitino. Such decays can arise in Low-Scale Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking. This process gives rise to a collider signal consisting of a pair of photons and missing energy. In the present work we investigate the bounds on this scenario within the minimal supersymmetric standard model from existing collider data. I will also mention the prospects for discovering the Higgs boson through this decay mode with upcoming data from the Tevatron and the LHC.