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We show that the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model includes a region where the down-type fermion masses are generated by the loop-induced couplings to the up-type Higgs doublet. In this region the down-type Higgs doublet does not acquire a vacuum expectation value at tree level, and has sizable couplings in the superpotential to the tau leptons and bottom quarks. Besides a light standard-like Higgs boson, the Higgs spectrum includes the nearly degenerate states of a heavy spin-0 doublet which can be produced through their couplings to the b quark and decay predominantly into τ + τ − or τν.
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Dobrescu, B.A., Fox, P.J. Uplifted supersymmetric Higgs region. Eur. Phys. J. C 70, 263–270 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1399-y
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