The Higgs Boson Mass in Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry-Breaking Models with Generalized Messenger Sectors

Abstract

The lighter neutral scalar Higgs mass is examined in gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking models in which the messenger sector responsible for SUSY breaking is allowed to involve more general sets of $SU(3)\otimes SU(2)\otimes U(1)$ multiplets than those contained in the SU(5) $5+\bar{5}$ or $10+\overline{10}$ multiplets. The largest mass for the lighter scalar Higgs is found to be 132 GeV when the breaking parameter $\Lambda$ is taken to be 100 TeV\@. Thus the predictions for the lightest Higgs mass can be tested at the upgraded Tevatron runs for these general classes of GMSB models.

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