Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in a 5D Orbifold Model

Abstract

We analyze the phenomenology of the Higgs sector in a 5D model compactified on an $S_1/Z_2$ orbifold with a compactification scale $M_C \sim {\mathcal O}(TeV)$ where supersymmetry breaking is localized on a brane at one of the fixed points. We show that the conventional MSSM Higgs boson mass bounds in 4D can be violated when we allow the gauge sector, Higgs and third family multiplets to live in the fifth extra dimension.

5 pages, 3 eps figures, ws-procs9x6.cls included. Based on a talk given by V.D.C. at 1st International Conference on String Phenomenology, Oxford, England, 6-11 Jul 2002