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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: How to make big bucks using supersymmetry
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:05:12
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov's message of 20 Aug 92 19:42:04 GMT
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- In article <25625@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
-
- > For a while, people were talking about a definitive test by
- > searching for the lightest MSSM neutral higgs. The mass was
- > supposed to be constrained to be less than the Z mass, if I remember
- > correctly. Unfortunately, someone bothered to calculate the
- > radiative corrections, and the whole plan was ruined. Do you know
- > if there is still an upper bound on the mass - or do the corrections
- > leave things wide open?
-
- Interestingly enough, I attended a talk on this subject just Monday.
- The answer, of course, is a bit more complicated than yes or no---but
- then, isn't it always?
-
- It is possible to derive an upper bound on the mass of the lightest
- MSSM Higgs, but there are some caveats on that, some of which were
- only elucidated only in questions after the talk:
- (1) This bound isn't a number, but a rather complicated plot,
- the upper bound versus various MSSM parameters. (The mass
- of the top, for example, and the ratio of the vevs of the
- two Higgs doublets.
- (2) The results are only from one-loop calculations. There is
- always that nagging questions: if one-loop corrections have
- a significant effect on the tree-level calculations, then who
- is to say that the two-loop corrections are small?
- (3) Even according to these calculations, there is a certain
- region in paramters space where no existing or planned
- collider (Tevatron, SppS, SSC, LHC, LEP,...) will be able
- to detect the lightest MSSM Higgs.
- (4) These calculations make certain assumptions that might not
- be true---for example, they assume that the theory is valid
- all the way to the GUT scale, and that the Higgs's
- interactions remain weak enough to be treated perturbatively
- up to that scale. (This might sound like a technicality,
- but it makes all the difference in the world.)
-
- By the way, there are some theorists here at LBL who are genuine
- experts on this subject.
- --
- Matthew Austern I dreamt I was being followed by a roving band
- (510) 644-2618 of young Republicans, all wearing the same suit,
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu taunting me and shouting, "Politically correct
- austern@theorm.lbl.gov multiculturist scum!"... They were going to make
- austern@lbl.bitnet me kiss Jesse Helms's picture when I woke up.
-