Light charged Higgs at the beginning of the LHC era

Understand

The terascale will be explored with the start of the LHC.

• One of the most fundamental questions which we expect to be answered is the root of electroweak symmetry breaking and whether the Higgs mechanism is realized in nature or not.
• In this context we pose the question if existing experimental data still allow for a light non-minimal Higgs sector.
• We tackle this question first in the context of the two Higgs doublet model and then we concentrate in two supersymmetric models, the constrained MSSM and the MSSM with non-universal Higgs masses.