Implications of CDMS II result on Higgs sector in the MSSM

Understand

We study implications of two dark matter candidate events at CDMS-II on the neutralino dark matter scenario in the supersymmetric standard model, in light of the recent lattice simulation on the strange quark content of a nucleon.

• The scattering rate of neutralino-nucleon is dominated by Higgs exchange processes and the mass of heavy Higgs boson is predicted for the neutralino of Bino-Higgsino mixing state.
• In the case of Wino-Higgsino mixing, the Higgs sector may not be constrained.