A Distorted MSSM Higgs Sector from Low-Scale Strong Dynamics

Understand

We show that when supersymmetry is broken at the TeV scale by strong dynamics, the Higgs sector of the MSSM can be drastically modified.

• This arises from possible sizeable mixings of the Higgs with the resonances of the strong sector.
• In particular the mass of the lightest Higgs boson can be significantly above the MSSM bound (~130 GeV).
• Furthermore only one Higgs doublet is strictly necessary, because the Yukawa couplings can have a very different structure compared to the MSSM.