First LHC constraints on neutralinos

The ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have recently reported tantalizing hints of the existence of a 125 GeV Higgs-like particle, whose couplings appear to match well the Standard Model (SM) expectations. In this work, we study implications of this observation for the neutralino sector of supersymmetric models, assuming that the Higgs signal gets confirmed. In general, the Higgs decay into neutralinos can be one of its dominant decay channels. Since a large invisible Higgs decay branching ratio would be in conflict with the data, this possibility is now constrained. In particular, we find that most of the region mu < 170 GeV, M-1 < 70 GeV at tan beta similar to 10 and mu < 120 GeV, M-1 < 70 GeV at tan beta similar to 40 is disfavored. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.