Measuring the trilinear neutral Higgs boson couplings in the MSSM at $e^+ e^-$ colliders

Abstract

We consider the measurement of the trilinear couplings of the neutral Higgs bosons~($H^0, h^0$) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model~(MSSM) at a high energy $e^+$ $e^-$ linear collider in the light of the discovery of a Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider~(LHC). We identify the state observed at the LHC with the lightest CP-even Higgs boson of the MSSM. We implement this constraint, as well as all the other relevant experimental constraints, on the parameter space of the MSSM in order to study the feasibility of measuring the trilinear couplings of the neutral Higgs bosons. For the measurement of trilinear couplings, we consider the multiple Higgs production processes. We delineate the regions of MSSM parameter space where the trilinear couplings of the neutral Higgs bosons could be measured at a high energy electron-positron collider.