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We have systematically investigated the production of a Higgs boson with a mass of about 125 GeV in the decays of supersymmetric particles within the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM). We find regions of parameter space that are consistent with all world data and that predict a sizeable rate of anomalous Higgs, di-Higgs and even tri-Higgs events at the 14 TeV LHC. All relevant SUSY production processes are investigated. We find that Higgs bosons can be produced in a large variety of SUSY processes, resulting in a large range of different detector signatures containing missing transverse momentum. Such Higgs events are outstanding signatures for new physics already for the early 14 TeV LHC data. SUSY processes are also important to interprete deviations found in upcoming Standard Model Higgs and di-Higgs production measurements.
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van Beekveld, M., Beenakker, W., Caron, S. et al. Higgs, di-Higgs and tri-Higgs production via SUSY processes at the LHC with 14 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 44 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2015)044
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