Higgs Decays into Leptons *

We discuss the prospects for the discovery of neutral Higgs bosons (φ 0 = H 0 , h 0 , A 0) in multi-Higgs doublet models via their decays into leptons at hadron colliders. A major focus will be searching for Higgs bosons produced with bottom quarks via Higgs decays into muon pairs (pp → b ¯ bφ 0 → b ¯ bµ¯ µ + X) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric model. 1. Introduction. In this article we discuss the prospects of discovering neutral Higgs bosons via their decays into lepton pairs of the same flavor as well as final states with lepton flavor violation. In particular, we present a summary of our results for the minimal supersymmetric Higgs bosons produced with bottom quarks via Higgs decays into muon pairs at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [1]. In a two Higgs doublet model such as the minimal supersymmetric model (MSSM) with Yukawa interactions of Model II, there are two Higgs dou-blets φ 1 and φ 2 coupling to the t 3 = −1/2 and t 3 = +1/2 fermions, respectively. After spontaneous symmetry breaking, there remain five Higgs bosons: two charged Higgs bosons H ± , two neutral CP-even scalars H 0 (heavier) and h