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A feasibility study is presented to precisely measure the masses of charged sleptons and the lightest neutralino in $e^+e^-\to\smur\smur$ and $e^+e^-\to\stau_1\stau_1$ production. Different mSUGRA scenarios with small slepton-neutralino…
High-precision analyses are presented for the production of scalar sleptons, selectrons and smuons in supersymmetric theories, at future e+e- and e-e- linear colliders. Threshold production can be exploited for measurements of the selectron…
Accurate theoretical calculations of slepton pair production processes at threshold are necessary for an accurate determination of slepton masses. We discuss the gauge invariant calculation of these processes for selectron and smuon pairs,…
Advantages of the e-e- option at linear colliders for the study of supersymmetry are highlighted. The fermion number violating process $e^- e^- \to \selectron^- \selectron^-$ provides unique opportunities for studies of slepton masses and…
We study the possibility to measure the masses of the selectrons in neutralino production at an e^+ e^- linear collider with polarized beams. The cross sections and polarization asymmetries of neutralinos with gaugino character strongly…
In the case with a large splitting between the squark and slepton masses, the supersymmetric identities which enforce the equality of the gauge and gaugino couplings are violated in the effective theory below the squark mass threshold. We…
The properties of the light charged sleptons in $\ser\ser$, $\smur\smur$ and $\stau_1\stau_1$ production are studied within the mSUGRA scenario SPS 1a. Various method are presented to determine very precisely masses, angular distributions,…
Selectrons may be studied in both e-e- and e+e- collisions at future linear colliders. Relative to e+e-, the e-e- mode benefits from negligible backgrounds and \beta threshold behavior for identical selectron pair production, but suffers…
For the search for scalar leptons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as for future precision analyses of these particles an accurate knowledge of their production and decay properties is mandatory. We evaluate the…
Complementing the preceding study of charged scalar leptons, the sector of the neutral scalar leptons, sneutrinos, is investigated in a high-precision analysis for future e+e- linear colliders. The theoretical predictions for the…
Non-zero width and Coulomb rescattering effects are analyzed for the pair production of smuons and selectrons near the thresholds in e+ e- and e- e- collisions, respectively. The excitation curves are predicted in a gauge-invariant form.…
At future e+- e- linear colliders, the event rates and clean signals of scalar fermion production - in particular for the scalar leptons - allow very precise measurements of their masses and couplings and the determination of their quantum…
At a future linear collider, the masses and couplings of scalar leptons can be measured with high accuracy, thus requiring precise theoretical predictions for the relevant processes. In this work, after a discussion of the expected…
The modification of the width of the rho meson due to in-medium decays and collisions is evaluated. In high temperature and/or high density hadronic matter, the collision width is much larger than the one-loop decay width. The large width…
Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear $e^+e^-$ or circular $\mu^+\mu^-$ accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this regime the impact of QED and of weak radiation, in both…
The pair production of sleptons in electron-positron collisions is investigated in a supersymmetric left-right model. The cross section is found considerably larger than in the minimal supersymmetric version of the Standard Model (MSSM)…
We discuss the potential of a $0.5\hskip 2pt TeV$ linear collider to explore manifestations of extended (or alternative) electroweak models of current interest, through measurements of the reaction $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-$ with both initial and…
We calculate the cross section for the production of pairs of scalar leptoquarks (sleptoquarks) in a supersymmetric $E_6$ model, at hadron colliders. We estimate higher order corrections by including $\pi^2$ terms induced by soft-gluon…
The precise determination of the masses of the neutral and charged heavy Higgs bosons is a crucial input for the study of Supersymmetry and its relation with cosmology through dark matter. This paper presents a study of e+e- -> HA and H+H-…
Detectors at a high-energy muon collider must be protected from the decay products of beam muons by installing shielding material around the beam pipe. In this article, the impact of these blind detector regions on new-physics signatures…