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Title: Impact of [ital R]-parity violation on supersymmetry searches at the Fermilab Tevatron

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 (United States)
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 (United States)

We evaluate cross sections for [ital ];sE[sub [ital T]], 1[ital l], and various dilepton and multilepton event topologies that result from the simultaneous production of all sparticles at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, both within the minimal model framework as well as in two different [ital R]-parity-violating scenarios. Our analysis assumes that these [ital R]-violating couplings are small, and that their sole effect is to cause the lightest supersymmetric particle to decay inside the detector. We reassess future strategies for sparticle searches at the Tevatron, and quantify by how much the various signals for supersymmetry could differ from their minimal model expectations, if [ital R] parity is not conserved due to either baryon-number- or lepton-number-violating operators. We also evaluate the Tevatron reach in [ital m][sub [ital [tilde g]]] for the various models, and find that rate-limited multilepton signals ultimately provide the largest reach for both [ital R]-parity-conserving and [ital R]-parity-violating cases.

DOE Contract Number:
FG05-87ER40319; FG03-94ER40833; FG02-91ER40685
OSTI ID:
6852661
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 51:5; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English