0000000000054103
AUTHOR
A. G. Akeroyd
Tau lepton mixing with charginos and its effects on chargino searches at e+e− colliders
In bilinear R-Parity violating models where a term \epsilon_3L_3H_2 is introduced in the superpotential, the tau lepton can mix with charginos. We show that this mixing is fully compatible with LEP1 precision measurements of the Z\tau\tau and W\tau\nu_\tau couplings even for large values of \epsilon_3 and of the induced vacuum expectation value v_3 of the tau-sneutrino. The single production of charginos at e+e- colliders is possible in this case and we present numerical values of the cross-section at LEP1, LEP2 and an NLC. We find maximum values of 10 pb at LEP1 and 1 fb at NLC, while the corresponding values at LEP2 are too small to observe.
Cascade decays of triplet Higgs bosons at LEP2
We study the Georgi-Machacek two triplet, one doublet model in the context of LEP2, and show that cascade decays of Higgs bosons to lighter Higgs bosons and a virtual vector boson may play a major role. Such decays would allow the Higgs bosons of this model to escape current searches, and in particular are of great importance for the members of the five-plet which will always decay to the three-plet giving rise to cascade signatures.
Charged Higgs boson and stau phenomenology in the simplest R-parity breaking model
We consider the charged scalar boson phenomenology in the simplest effective low-energy R-parity breaking model characterized by a bilinear violation of R-parity in the superpotential. This induces a mixing between staus and the charged Higgs boson. We show that the charged Higgs boson mass can be lower than expected in the MSSM, even before including radiative corrections. We also study the charged scalar boson decay branching ratios and show that the R-parity violating decay rates can be comparable or even bigger than the R-parity conserving ones. Moreover, if the stau is the LSP it will have only decays into standard model fermions. These features could have important implications for ch…
Yukawa coupling corrections to the decay $H^+ \to W^+ A^0$
We compute the fermionic radiative contributions to the decay $H^+ \to W^{+(*)} A^0$ in the framework of models with two Higgs doublets (2HDM), for the case of an on-shell and off-shell W. We show that, in the majority of the cases, current measurements of the $\rho$ parameter suggest $M_{H^{\pm}}\ge M_A$ and such decays could invalidate current charged Higgs searches or aid detection in the region $M_{H^{\pm}}\approx M_W$. We find that the radiative corrections may approach 50% for small values of $\tan\beta$.
Three-body decays of Higgs bosons at LEP2 and application to a hidden fermiophobic Higgs
We study the decays of Higgs bosons to a lighter Higgs boson and a virtual gauge boson in the context of the non-supersymmetric Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM). We consider the phenomenological impact at LEP2 and find that such decays, when open, may be dominant in regions of parameter space and thus affect current Higgs boson search techniques. Three-body decays would be a way of producing light neutral Higgs bosons which have so far escaped detection at LEP due to suppressed couplings to the $Z$, and are of particular importance in the 2HDM (Model I) which allows both a light fermiophobic Higgs and a light charged scalar.