M. Acciarri et al., Search for charginos with a small mass difference to the lightest supersymmetric particle at root s=189 GeV, PHYS LETT B, 482(1-3), 2000, pp. 31-42
A search for charginos nearly mass-degenerate with the lightest supersymmet
ric particle is performed using the 176 pb(-1) of data collected at 189 GeV
in 1998 with the L3 detector. Mass differences between the chargino and th
e lightest supersymmetric particle below 4 GeV are considered. The presence
of a high transverse momentum photon is required to single out the signal
from the photon-photon interaction background. Na evidence for charginos is
found and upper Limits on the cross section for chargino pail production a
re set, For the first time at LEP2, in the case of heavy scalar leptons, ch
argino <(chi)over tilde>(+/-)(1) - <(chi)over tilde>(0)(1) mass difference.
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