https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3432-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Neutral Higgs production at proton colliders in the CP-conserving NMSSM
DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
* e-mail: stefan.liebler@desy.de
Received:
11
March
2015
Accepted:
26
April
2015
Published online:
14
May
2015
We discuss neutral Higgs boson production through gluon fusion and bottom-quark annihilation in the CP-conserving -invariant Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at proton colliders. For gluon fusion we adapt well-known asymptotic expansions in supersymmetric particles for the inclusion of next-to-leading order contributions of squarks and gluinos from the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and include electroweak corrections involving light quarks. Together with the resummation of higher-order sbottom contributions in the bottom-quark Yukawa coupling for both production processes we thus present accurate cross section predictions implemented in a new release of the code SusHi. We elaborate on the new features of an additional SU
singlet in the production of CP-even and -odd Higgs bosons with respect to the MSSM and include a short discussion of theoretical uncertainties.
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