Measuring Trilinear Higgs Couplings in the MSSM

Abstract

Trilinear couplings of the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) can be measured through the multiple production of the lightest CP-even Higgs boson (h) at high-energy e^+e^- colliders. This includes the production of the heavier CP-even Higgs boson (H) via e^+e^- \to ZH, in association with the CP-odd Higgs boson (A) in e^+e^- \to AH, or via e^+e^- \to \nu_e \bar\nu_e H, with H subsequently decaying through H \to hh. These processes can enable one to measure the trilinear Higgs couplings \lambda_{Hhh} and \lambda_{hhh}, which can be used to theoretically reconstruct the Higgs potential. We delineate the regions of the MSSM parameter space in which these trilinear Higgs couplings could be measured.

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX, including figures, uses epsf. Presented at VIIIth UNESCO St. Petersburg International School of Physics, May 25 - June 4, 1998. To be published in the Proceedings