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Title: A search for squarks and gluinos using the jets and missing energy signature at D-0

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/561174· OSTI ID:561174

This thesis reports on a search for evidence of production and decay of squarks (q) and gluinos (g) of Minimal Supergravity (mSUGRA) in p{bar p} collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV using the D0 detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Data corresponding to 79.2 {+-} 4.2 pb{sup -1} were examined for events with large missing transverse energy (E{sub T}), three or more jets, high energy leading jet, and the absence of isolated leptons. Since no events were observed in excess of Standard Model background predictions, limits are placed in the mSUGRA M{sub 0} - M{sub {1/2}} plane for fixed parameters tan {beta} = 2, A{sub o} = 0, and {mu} < 0. The excluded region includes all mSUGRA models with m{sub q} < 250 GeV/c{sup 2}. For small M{sub 0}, gluinos with mass less than 300 GeV/c{sup 2} are excluded. If squarks and gluinos have the same mass, that common mass must be greater than 260 GeV/c{sup 2}.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
561174
Report Number(s):
FNAL-97053899; ON: DE97053899; TRN: 98:008625
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Thesis (Ph.D.); PBD: 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English