HUNTING EFFECTIVE LSPS AT LEP-200

Citation
A. Datta et al., HUNTING EFFECTIVE LSPS AT LEP-200, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 69(2), 1996, pp. 347-357
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
01709739
Volume
69
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
347 - 357
Database
ISI
SICI code
0170-9739(1996)69:2<347:HELAL>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Relatively light sneutrinos, which are experimentally allowed, may sig nificantly affect the currently popular search strategies for supersym metric particles by decaying dominantly into an invisible channel. In certain cases the second lightest neutralino may also decay invisibly leading to two extra carriers of missing energy - in addition to the l ightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) (Z) over tilde(1) - the effectiv e LSPs (ELSPs). It is shown that these ELSPs are allowed in supergravi ty models with common scalar and gaugino masses at the unification sca le for a sizable region of parameter space and are consistent with all constraints derived so far from SUSY searches. The pair production of right handed sleptons, which can very well be the lightest charged SU SY particles in this scenario, at LEP 200 anatheir decay signatures ar e discussed. The signal survives kinematical cuts required to remove t he standard model background. Charginos are also pair produced copious ly if kinematically accessible; they also decay dominantly into hadron ically quiet di-lepton + is not an element of(T) modes leading to inte resting unlike sign dilepton events which are again easily separable f rom the Standard Model backgrounds at LEP 200 energies.