Invisible decays of low mass Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models

by Dr Monalisa Patra (TIFR)

Thursday 31 Jul 2014, 14:30 → 15:30 Asia/Kolkata

AG69 (Colaba Campus)

The discovery of a 126 GeV Higgs like scalar at the LHC along with the non observation of the supersymmetric particles, has in turn lead to constraining various supersymmetric models through the Higgs data. Usually the lightest scalar of these models are identified as the 126 GeV state discovered at the LHC. However I will also concentrate on the case where we identify the second lightest Higgs boson as the 126 GeV state discovered at the CERN LHC and consider the invisible decays of the low mass Higgs bosons in both MSSM and NMSSM. I will then show the implications of the latest Higgs result on the neutralino sector of these supersymmetric models through the consideration of these invisible decays.