Speaker
Sebastian Baum
(Stockholm Universitet)
Description
The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) augments the MSSM particle
content with an additional singlet superfield. The 125 GeV Standard Model-like Higgs
and naturalness generically prefer regions of NMSSM parameter space featuring a light
Higgs and neutralino spectrum as well as large couplings between the Higgs doublets
and the NMSSM singlet. The additional states and large couplings modify the collider
phenomenology of the NMSSM's Higgs sector substantially with respect to the MSSM.
This warrants specific search strategies beyond those for MSSM Higgses. I will
discuss how Higgs to Higgs and Higgs to neutralino decays can be employed to search
for the NMSSM at the LHC. In particular, I will show the potential of the mono-Higgs
signature to explore interesting regions of NMSSM parameter space.
Primary author
Sebastian Baum
(Stockholm Universitet)
