Higgs Boson Decays into Light Gravitinos

Abstract

We study decays of the neutral and charged Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model into a very light gravitino and a neutralino or chargino. Present experimental constraints already imply that the lighter scalar Higgs boson can only have a very small branching ratio into this mode. However, if the gravitino mass is below ∼ 0.5 eV, the heavier neutral and charged Higgs boson decays into a gravitino can be important or even dominant. We discuss the resulting signature for associate production of the heavy CP–even and the CP–odd states at future e + e − Recently models with a very light gravitino ˜ G [1], m˜G ≤ 10−3 eV, have attracted some attention [2, 3, 4]. This interest was originally triggered by the resurgence of models [5] where supersymmetry breaking is transmitted by gauge interactions to the “visible sector ” containing the usual gauge, Higgs and matter superfields, although these models