Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-05-30
Eur.Phys.J.C1:375-393,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
51 pages, LaTeX plus 13 postscript figures included using epsfig in uuencoded and compressed form, minor comments added
Scientific paper
Currently popular search strategies for supersymmetric particles may be significantly affected due to relatively light sneutrinos which decay dominantly into invisible channels. In certain cases the second lightest neutralino may also decay invisibly leading to two extra carriers of missing energy (in addition to the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP)) -- the virtual LSPs (VLSPs). It is shown that if the sneutrino masses happen to be in the small but experimentally allowed range ~ 45 - 55 GeV, these particles together with neutralino pairs may contribute significantly to the missing energy in the process e+ e- ---> \gamma + missing energy at LEP-2 energies as an enhancement over the Standard Model or the conventional MSSM predictions. It is further shown that a much larger region of the parameter space can be scanned at a high luminosity e+ e- collider at 500 GeV like the proposed NLC machine. Moreover this process can play a complementary role to direct chargino searches at LEP-2 and NLC which may fail due to a near mass degeneracy of the chargino and the sneutrino. Formulae for the cross sections taking into account full mixings of the charginos and the neutralinos are derived. The signal remains observable even in the context of more restricted models based on N=1 SUGRA with common scalar and gaugino masses. The effect of soft photon brehmsstrahlung on the signal is also discussed briefly.
Datta Amitava
Datta Aseshkrishna
Raychaudhuri Sreerup
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