Probing NMSSM Scenarios with Minimal Fine-Tuning by Searching for Decays of the Upsilon to a Light CP-Odd Higgs Boson
Abstract
Completely natural electroweak symmetry breaking is easily achieved in supersymmetric models if there is a SM-like Higgs boson, h, with mh 100. In the minimal supersymmetric model, such an h decays mainly to b b and is ruled out by LEP constraints. However, if the MSSM Higgs sector is expanded so that h decays mainly to still lighter Higgs bosons, e.g. h aa, with BR(h aa)>0.7, and if ma<2mb, then the LEP constraints are satisfied. In this letter, we show that in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric model the above h and a properties (for the lightest CP-even and CP-odd Higgs bosons, respectively) imply a lower bound on BR( a) that dedicated runs at present (and future) B factories can explore.
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