GLUINO-PAIR PRODUCTION AT THE TEVATRON

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of gluino pairs at the Tevatron are presented in this paper. Similar to the prod uction of squark-antisquark pairs, the dependence of the cross section on the renormalization/factorization scale is reduced considerably by including the higher-order corrections. The cross section increases w ith respect to the lowest-order calculation which, in previous experim ental analyses, had been evaluated at the scale of the invariant energ y of the partonic subprocesses.