Associated Higgs Production in the MSSM

Abstract

We investigate the inclusive production of the Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric model with a heavy quark pair, ($t {\bar t}$ and $b {\bar b}$), in e^+e^- collisions at high energies, $\sqrt{s}=500 GeV$ and $\sqrt{s}=1 TeV$. The ${\cal O}(α_s)$ QCD radiative corrections are included and the dependence of the production rates on the parameters of the MSSM is explored. The associated production of a Higgs boson with a $b {\bar b}$ pair receives large resonant contributions and can have a significant rate.