Supersymmetric Higgs production in gluon fusion

Abstract

The cross section through gluon fusion is calculated for the production of the light neutral Higgs boson through next-to-leading order QCD within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The quark-mediated contributions are taken into account exactly, while for the genuinely supersymmetric terms we use expressions obtained in the limit of large squark, gluino and top quark masses. We present numerical results for the total inclusive cross section as well as for kinematical distributions of the Higgs boson. We also consider the effect of an MSSM-like fourth generation on the total Higgs production cross section.