SUSY QCD Corrections to Associated Higgs-bottom Quark Production

Understand

The associated production of a Higgs boson with a b quark is a discovery mode for an MSSM Higgs boson at large tan beta.

• We compute the SUSY QCD corrections from gluino and squark loops to this process and combine them with the order alpha_s^2 NLO QCD corrections to obtain reliable predictions for the rate.
• Finally, we compare our results with an effective Lagrangian approximation which includes only the low energy corrections from squark and gluino loops to the b- bbar- Higgs vertices.