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Title: Supersymmetry: Current status and future prospects

Abstract

We review the most recent data from e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} and p{bar p} colliders and discuss the resulting constraints on the parameters of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and their implications for future supersymmetry searches. We review the patterns of cascade decays of squarks and gluinos and discuss the present status of supersymmetry event generators for hadron colliders. We present the results of detailed simulations of E{sub T} and same sign dilepton events from supersymmetry at the Tevatron. Although the E{sub T} signal continues to be viable, it is concluded that the same sign dilepton signal may be too small unless squarks and gluinos are approximately degenerate. The E{sub T} and the same-sign dilepton signals from supersymmetry and the Standard Model backgrounds at the SSC are also discussed in detail. We also discuss other promising ways of searching for supersymmetry at the SSC including events containing Z{degree} bosons, and events containing n isolated leptons (n {ge} 3). Finally, we discuss how supersymmetry searches might be modified if the Higgs sectors is more complicated or if R-parity is not conserved due to baryon number violating interactions. 49 refs., 12 figs.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ;  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6]
  1. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (USA). Dept. of Physics
  2. Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL (USA). Dept. of Physics
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
  5. Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (USA). Dept. of Physics
  6. Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI (USA). Dept. of Physi
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (USA). High Energy Physics Lab.
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
6160438
Report Number(s):
BNL-45561; CONF-9006267-20; FSU-HEP-901110
ON: DE91006910; TRN: 91-003017
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1990 DPF summer study on high energy physics, Snowmass, CO (USA), 25 Jun - 13 Jul 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; SPARTICLES; SUPERSYMMETRY; BRANCHING RATIO; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CROSS SECTIONS; ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS; FERMILAB TEVATRON; HIGGS BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER; TRANSVERSE ENERGY; ACCELERATORS; BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; KINETIC ENERGY; LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEON-ANTINUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SIMULATION; STORAGE RINGS; SYMMETRY; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; 645300* - High Energy Physics- Particle Invariance Principles & Symmetries; 645200 - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical

Citation Formats

Baer, H, White, A, Amos, N, Beretvas, A, Barnett, R M, Bhattacharya, G, and De, K. Supersymmetry: Current status and future prospects. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Baer, H, White, A, Amos, N, Beretvas, A, Barnett, R M, Bhattacharya, G, & De, K. Supersymmetry: Current status and future prospects. United States.
Baer, H, White, A, Amos, N, Beretvas, A, Barnett, R M, Bhattacharya, G, and De, K. 1990. "Supersymmetry: Current status and future prospects". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6160438.
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abstractNote = {We review the most recent data from e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} and p{bar p} colliders and discuss the resulting constraints on the parameters of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and their implications for future supersymmetry searches. We review the patterns of cascade decays of squarks and gluinos and discuss the present status of supersymmetry event generators for hadron colliders. We present the results of detailed simulations of E{sub T} and same sign dilepton events from supersymmetry at the Tevatron. Although the E{sub T} signal continues to be viable, it is concluded that the same sign dilepton signal may be too small unless squarks and gluinos are approximately degenerate. The E{sub T} and the same-sign dilepton signals from supersymmetry and the Standard Model backgrounds at the SSC are also discussed in detail. We also discuss other promising ways of searching for supersymmetry at the SSC including events containing Z{degree} bosons, and events containing n isolated leptons (n {ge} 3). Finally, we discuss how supersymmetry searches might be modified if the Higgs sectors is more complicated or if R-parity is not conserved due to baryon number violating interactions. 49 refs., 12 figs.},
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year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
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