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SUSY signals at HERA in the no-scale flipped SU(5) supergravity model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-08-25 v1

Abstract

Sparticle production and detection at HERA are studied within the recently proposed no-scale flipped SU(5)SU(5) supergravity model. Among the various reaction channels that could lead to sparticle production at HERA, only the following are within its limit of sensitivity in this model: epe~L,Rχi0+X,ν~eχ1+Xe^-p\to \tilde e^-_{L,R}\chi^0_i+X, \tilde \nu_e\chi^-_1+X, where χi0(i=1,2)\chi^0_i(i=1,2) are the two lightest neutralinos and χ1\chi^-_1 is the lightest chargino. We study the elastic and deep-inelastic contributions to the cross sections using the Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation. We find that the most promising supersymmetric production channel is right-handed selectron (e~R\tilde e_{R}) plus first neutralino (χ10\chi^0_1), with one hard electron and missing energy signature. The ν~eχ1\tilde\nu_e\chi^-_1 channel leads to comparable rates but also allows jet final states. A right-handedly polarized electron beam at HERA would shut off the latter channel and allow preferentially the former one. With an integrated luminosity of L=100\ipb{\cal L}=100\ipb, HERA can extend the present LEPI lower bounds on me~R,mν~e,mχ10m_{\tilde e_R}, m_{\tilde\nu_e},m_{\chi^0_1} by 25\GeV\approx25\GeV, while L=1000\ipb{\cal L}=1000\ipb will make HERA competitive with LEPII. We also show that the Leading Proton Spectrometer (LPS) at HERA is an excellent supersymmetry detector which can provide indirect information about the sparticle masses by measuring the leading proton longitudinal momentum distribution.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9304235,
  title  = {SUSY signals at HERA in the no-scale flipped SU(5) supergravity model},
  author = {J. Lopez and D. Nanopoulos and X. Wang and A. Zichichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9304235},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 8 figures (available upon request as uuencoded file or separate ps files), tex (harvmac) CTP-TAMU-15/93, CERN/LAA/93-19