Finding the Higgs boson through supersymmetry

The study of displaced vertices containing two b-jets may provide a double discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): we show how it may not only reveal evidence for supersymmetry, but also provide a way to uncover the Higgs boson necessary in the formulation of the electroweak theory in a large region of the parameter space. We quantify this explicitly using the simplest minimal supergravity model with bilinear breaking of R-parity, which accounts for the observed pattern of neutrino masses and mixings seen in neutrino oscillation experiments.

MEC[FPA2005-01269]

EC Contracts RTN network[MRTN-CT-2004503369]

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)

Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)

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