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Higgs bosons in the NMSSM with exact and slightly broken PQ-symmetry

D. J. Miller, S. Moretti, R. Nevzorov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0501139

Abstract

We explore the Higgs sector of the NMSSM in the limit when the Peccei--Quinn symmetry is exact or only slightly broken. In this case the Higgs spectrum has a hierarchical structure which is caused by the stability of the physical vacuum. We find a strong correlation between the parameters of the NMSSM if κ=0 or κ λ2. It allows one to distinguish the NMSSM with exact or softly broken PQ-symmetry from the MSSM even when extra scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs states escape direct detection.

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