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R-Parity Violation at HERA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We summarize the signals at HERA in supersymmetric models with explicitly broken R-parity. As the most promising case, we consider in detail the resonant production of single squarks through an operator L1QiDˉjL_1Q_i{ \bar D}_j, a production process analogous to that for leptoquarks. However, the dominant decay of the squark to a quark and a photino leads to a very different experimental signature. We examine in particular the case where the photino decays to a positron and two quarks. Using a detailed Monte-Carlo procedure we obtain a discovery limit in the squark mass---Yukawa coupling plane. HERA can discover a squark for a mass as large as 270\gev270 \gev and for an R-parity violating Yukawa coupling as small as 5.8×1035.8 \times 10^{-3}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9211204,
  title  = {R-Parity Violation at HERA},
  author = {Jon Butterworth and Herbert Dreiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9211204},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages, 11 figures upon request, Oxford Preprint, OUNP-92-13

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