The Renormalization-Group Improved Higgs Sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model

Abstract

In the minimal supersymmetric model (MSSM) all Higgs self-coupling parameters are related to gauge couplings at tree-level. Leading-logarithmic radiative corrections to these quantities can be summed using renormalization group techniques. By this procedure we obtain complete leading-log radiative corrections to the Higgs masses, the CP-even Higgs mixing angle, and trilinear Higgs couplings. Additional corrections due to squark mixing can be explicitly incorporated into this formalism. These results incorporate nearly all potentially large corrections. Mass shifts to the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons grow with the fourth power of the top-quark mass and can be significant. The phenomenological consequences of these results are examined.