Abstract
In the minimal supersymmetric model (MSSM), the tree-level mass of the lightest Higgs scalar cannot be larger than the mass of the Z boson. We have computed the one-loop radiative correction to the upper bound on as a function of the free parameters of the MSSM. We find that the dominant correction to - is large and positive and grows like , where is the top-quark mass. As a result, the MSSM cannot be ruled out if the CERN collider LEP-200 fails to discover the Higgs boson.
- Received 3 January 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1815
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