https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1906-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Constraints on the MSSM from the Higgs sector
A pMSSM study of Higgs searches, 
and dark matter direct detection
1
Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR 5822 IPNL, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
2
CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
3
Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5574, CRAL Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69561, Saint-Genis Laval Cedex, France
4
Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
5
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
6
Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
* e-mail: MBattaglia@lbl.gov
Received:
20
December
2011
Revised:
13
February
2012
Published online:
7
March
2012
We discuss the constraints on supersymmetry in the Higgs sector arising from LHC searches, rare B decays and dark matter direct detection experiments. We show that constraints derived on the mass of the lightest h 0 and the CP-odd A 0 bosons from these searches are covering a larger fraction of the SUSY parameter space compared to searches for strongly interacting supersymmetric particle partners. We discuss the implications of a mass determination for the lightest Higgs boson in the range 123<M h <127 GeV, inspired by the intriguing hints reported by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, as well as those of a non-observation of the lightest Higgs boson for MSSM scenarios not excluded at the end of 2012 by LHC and direct dark matter searches and their implications on LHC SUSY searches.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
