28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
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Dark Light Higgs

1 Sep 2011, 14:30
20m
D: Wilson Hall 1 North

D: Wilson Hall 1 North

SUSY: phenomenology Parallel Session 9

Speaker

Dr Tao Liu (Department of Physics, UC@Santa Barbara)

Description

We discovered a benchmark scenario in the NMSSM which possesses novel Higgs and dark matter (DM) properties. There naturally co-exist three light singlet-like particles in this scenario: a scalar, a pseudoscalar, and their superpartner, all with masses of order 0.1-10 GeV. New non-standard decay channel is opened for the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson, while its pair-decays to the light scalars or pseudoscalars are generically suppressed. This will dramatically change our search strategies for the SM-like and light Higgs bosons at colliders. In addition, this scenario is characterized by a light siglino-like DM candidate (~ 1-10 GeV). For a certain parameter window annihilation into the light pseudoscalar and exchange of the light scalar with nucleons allow the singlino to achieve the correct relic density and a (spin-independent) direct detection cross section as large as 10^{-40} cm2 simultaneously, which is accessible to the current direct detections (e.g., CoGeNT and DAMA) or the ones in the near future.

Primary author

Dr Tao Liu (Department of Physics, UC@Santa Barbara)

Co-authors

Prof. Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago) Dr Hao Zhang (Peking Univ.) Prof. Liantao Wang (University of Chicago) Dr Patrick Draper (UC, Santa Cruz)

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