Eur. Phys. J. C (2013) 73: 2384
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2384-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Decays of H ⁰/A ⁰ in supersymmetric scenarios with heavy sfermions

¹ IFLP, CONICET - Dpto. de Física, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C. 67, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
² Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

^* e-mail: ernesto.arganda@fisica.unlp.edu.ar

Received: 30 January 2013
Revised: 15 March 2013
Published online: 5 April 2013

Abstract

The recent discovery of a new boson at the LHC, which resembles a SM-like Higgs boson with m _h =125 GeV, is starting to provide strong guidelines into SUSY model building. For instance, the identification of such a state with the lightest CP-even Higgs boson of the MSSM (h ⁰), requires large values of tanβ and/or heavy sfermions. One outcome of this result is the possibility to solve the SUSY flavor and CP problems by decoupling, which points towards some realization of Split-inspired SUSY scenarios, in which scalars are much heavier than gauginos and higgsinos. However, we argue here that the remaining Higgs bosons of the MSSM (H ⁰, A ⁰, H ^±) do not have to be as heavy as the sfermions, and having them with masses near the EW scale does not pose any conflict with current MSSM constraints. We discuss then some SUSY scenarios with heavy sfermions, from a bottom-up approach, which contain the full Higgs sector, as well as a possible dark matter candidate, with masses near the EW scale, and identify distinctive signals from these scenarios that could be searched at the LHC.