Charged Higgs mass bound from the $b\to s\gamma$ process in the minimal supergravity

Abstract

The constraint on the mass of the charged Higgs boson from the recent measurement of the inclusive $b\to s\gamma$ decay is studied in a framework of the minimal supergravity. It is shown that the lower bound for the charged Higgs mass crucially depends on the sign of the higgsino mass parameter ($\mu$). For $\mu <0$, the bound exceeds 400 GeV when the ratio of two Higgs vacuum expectation values ($\tan \beta$) is larger than 10. No strong bound is obtained for $\mu >0$ due to cancellations between charged Higgs and supersymmetric particle contributions.

Comments: Talk given by Toru Goto at Yukawa International Seminar '95: From the Standard Model to Grand Unified Theories, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 Aug 1995; 10 pages LaTeX with ptptex.sty; 5 figures are included with epsf.sty