What is the Upper Limit on the Lightest Supersymmetric Higgs Mass?

Quiros, M.; Espinosa, J. R.
Bibliographical reference

Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium, PASCOS 98, held at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 22-29 March, 1998. Edited by P. Nath. Published by World Scientific, 1999., p.513

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1999
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In this talk the question of what is the upper bound on the lightest supersymmetric Higgs mass, m_h is addressed. This question is relevant since experimental lower bounds on m_h might implement, in the near future, exclusion of supersymmetry. By imposing (perturbative) unification of the gauge couplings at some high scale simgt 10^{17} GeV, we have found that for a top-quark mass M_t=175 GeV, and depending on the supersymmetric parameters, this bound can be as high as 205 GeV.