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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Does the HyperCP evidence for the decay Sigma+ -->pmu+mu- indicate a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson?
Xiao-Gang He1, Jusak Tandean, G Valencia
1Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. hexg@phys.ntu.edu.tw
Abstract:
The HyperCP Collaboration has observed three events for the decay Sigma+ -->p mu+mu- which may be interpreted as a new particle of mass 214.3 MeV. However, existing data from kaon and B-meson decays provide stringent constraints on the construction of models that support this interpretation. In this Letter we show that the "HyperCP particle" can be identified with the light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, the A10. In this model there are regions of parameter space where the A10 can satisfy all the existing constraints from kaon and B-meson decays and mediate Sigma+ -->p mu+mu- at a level consistent with the HyperCP observation.
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