DETECTING SLEPTONS AT HADRON COLLIDERS AND SUPERCOLLIDERS

We study the prospects for detecting the sleptons of the minimal super symmetric standard model at hadron colliders and supercolliders. We us e ISAJET 7.03 to simulate charged slepton and sneutrino pair productio n, incorporating slepton and sneutrino cascade decays into our analysi s. We find that even with an accumulation of approximately 1 fb-1 of i ntegrated luminosity, it will be very difficult to detect sleptons bey ond the reach of CERN LEP at the Fermilab Tevatron ppBAR collider, due to a large background from W pair production. We confirm that at CERN LHC, sleptons of mass up to 300 GeV ought to be detectable via the di lepton signal as long as it is possible to veto central jets with p(T) greater-than-or-equal-to 25 GeV with high efficiency.