Search for a light Higgs boson in SUSY cascades

Abstract

This note presents the potential of the CMS experiment to discover a light supersymmetric Higgs boson (h0) produced at the end of a cascade of supersymmetric particles starting with the strong production of squarks (~q) and gluinos (~g). Because of this production mechanism, the events can be efficiently triggered using inclusive SUSY triggers such as jet+EmissT, and the dominant h0 -> bb decay mode of the Higgs boson can be exploited. The Higgs mass can be extracted from the reconstructed di-b-jet effective mass distribution. The present investigation for the so-called LM5 test point has been done for 1, 3 and 10 fb-1.