Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-12-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Presented at HEP2005 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, July 21st - 27th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal (4 p
Scientific paper
Data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP up to the highest energies of 209 GeV are analyzed to search for evidence of supersymmetric (SUSY) particle production. Chargino pair-production and neutralino associated production are considered in models where supersymmetry breaking is mediated by gravitational interactions. The focus of the searches is on topologies arising when scalar fermions are heavy and the lightest neutralino is the lightest SUSY particle (LSP). Searches for topologies predicted by gauge-mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) models are also discussed. In these models the LSP is the gravitino and the phenomenology is driven by the nature of the next-to-lightest SUSY particle (NLSP) which is either the lightest neutralino, stau or mass degenerate sleptons. As the NLSP decay length is effectively unconstrained, all possible values are considered and results independent of the NLSP lifetime are presented for all relevant final states including direct NLSP pair-production and NLSP production via cascade decays of heavier SUSY particles. None of the searches shows evidence for SUSY particle production. Cross-section limits are presented at the 95% confidence level both for direct NLSP production and, for the first time, also for cascade decays. These are then interpreted in the framework of minimal theoretical models. Large areas of the accessible parameter space are excluded and constraints on the mass of the SUSY particles are derived.
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