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Title: Supersymmetric jets from z-boson decay and radiative decays of heavy quarkonium

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6632927

An analysis of the jet structure in the final state of the supersymmetric process e/sup +/e/sup -/ ..-->.. anti-qq ..-->.. qq..gamma gamma.. is presented. For scalar quark production, as for supersymmetric events in general, the signature which will enable supersymmetry to be discovered in future colliders is missing energy/momentum combined with certain characteristic jet angular and energy distributions. The squark production and decay process at the parton level and a Monte Carlo simulation of the fragmentation of the quarks into jets of hadrons is done. In the second part of the thesis, two-body radiative decays of quarkonium states O ..-->.. ..gamma.. + delta are examined in order to study the effects of the spin of the delta on decay widths; delta stands for any elementary particle or resonance. Using effective delta couplings in a calculation which goes beyond the Wilczek approximation, the author finds that in all cases examined, J/sub delta/ = 0/sup +/-/, 1/sup +/, 2/sup +/-/, spin has little effect on the ratio Gamma(O(2S) ..-->.. ..gamma.. + delta)/O(1S) ..-->.. ..gamma.. + delta) except for delta masses close to the phase space limit.

Research Organization:
Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA)
OSTI ID:
6632927
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English