Introduction on Higgs Boson Searches

This page contains approved plots and results in the order as they appear in the CSC note. Only the CSC note contains all the relevant information and should thus be consulted if one of the plots is used.

Figure 1: Left: Branching ratios for the relevant decay modes of the Standard Model Higgs boson as a function of its mass. Right: cross-sections for the five production channels of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the LHC at 14 TeV.

Figure 2: Feynman diagrams contributing to the MSSM Higgs boson production. Diagram a) is called 'direct production', diagrams b) to e) contribute to the b quark associated production. In the above diagrams φ represents either of the neutral Higgs bosons in the MSSM, h, H, or A.

Figure 3: The inclusive cross-sections for the processes bb->φ (blue hatched region) and gg->φ (red hatched region) are shown on the right-hand side; the exclusive cross-sections for bg->bφ (bluehatched region) and gg->bbφ (red hatched region) are shown on the right-hand side. The width of thebands corresponds to the theoretical uncertainty due to the choice of renormalization and factorization scales.

Figure 4: Expected charged Higgs boson production cross-section in the MSSM for scenarios A and B for light [36] and heavy charged Higgs bosons.

Figure 5: Charged Higgs boson branching ratios as a function of mass for the mh -max scenario for tanβ=2 and tanβ= 35 and three selected decay modes.

Figure 6: Expected charged Higgs boson branching ratios in the MSSM for scenarios A and B for the example of a light (mH⁺ = 130 GeV) and a heavy (mH⁺ = 600GeV) charged Higgs boson.