HEAVY CHARGED-HIGGS-BOSON DECAYING INTO TOP-QUARK IN THE MSSM

Observing a heavy charged Higgs boson produced in the near future at t he Tevatron or at the LHC would be instant evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. Whether such a Higgs boson would be supersymmetric or not it could only be decided after accurate prediction of its prop erties. Here we compute the decay width of the dominant decay of such a boson, namely H+ --> t (b) over bar, including the leading electrowe ak corrections originating from large Yukawa couplings within the MSSM . These electroweak effects turn out to be of comparable size to the O (alpha(s)) QCD corrections in relevant portions of the MSSM parameter space. Our analysis incorporates the stringent low-energy constraints imposed by radiative B-meson decays. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. Al l rights reserved.