Associated production of Z and neutral Higgs bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

We study the hadroproduction of a CP-even or CP-odd neutral Higgs boson in association with a Z boson in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) We include the contributions from quark-antiquark annihilation at the tree level and those from gluon-gluon fusion, which proceeds via quark and squark loops, and list compact analytic results. We quantitatively analyze the hadronic cross sections at the CERN Large Hadron Collider assuming a favorable supergravity-inspired MSSM scenario.

Comments: 24 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0103018