APPROXIMATING THE RADIATIVELY CORRECTED HIGGS MASS IN THE MINIMAL SUPERSYMMETRIC MODEL

To obtain the most accurate predictions for the Higgs masses in the mi nimal supersymmetric model (MSSM), one should compute the full set of one-loop radiative corrections, resum the large logarithms to all orde rs, and add the dominant two-loop effects. A complete computation foll owing this procedure yields a complex set of formulae which must be an alyzed numerically. We discuss a very simple approximation scheme whic h includes the most important terms from each of the three components mentioned above. We estimate that the Higgs masses computed using our scheme lie within 2 GeV of their theoretically predicted values over a very large fraction of MSSM parameter space.