1. Search for chargino and neutralino production using the OPAL detector at =130−136 GeV at LEP
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Tara Shears, W. J. McDonald, B. C. Shen, P. A. Hart, A. P. Wagner, Reda Tafirout, D. Chrisman, Volker Blobel, M. J. Pearce, Sachio Komamiya, Ekg Sarkisyan, Siegfried Bethke, B. Nijjhar, W. G. Scott, S. L. Chu, T. Behnke, J. Steuerer, M. Gruwé, C. M. Hawkes, Richard Nisius, P. Weber, Marco Cuffiani, Stephen Lloyd, G. G. Hanson, E. Ros, A. T. Watson, S. B. Anderson, P. Szymanski, Daniel Lellouch, T. J. Smith, K. Stephens, P. W. Jeffreys, E. Lefebvre, Andris Skuja, Koji Yoshimura, Takehiko Mori, S. Yamashita, W. R. Gibson, Madjid Boutemeur, F. Odorici, G. Giacomelli, Dezso Horvath, M. J. Losty, D. M. Strom, S. Petzold, G. D. Long, A. Joly, P. Poffenberger, P. Igo-Kemenes, Shlomo Dado, Matthias Schröder, T. P. Kokott, Stan Bentvelsen, Jean-Arcady Meyer, B. T. Bouwens, P. Schenk, M. Hauschild, A. Luig, Tetsuro Mashimo, H. Fukui, V. Zacek, F. S. Merritt, Ehud Duchovni, V. Gibson, P. G. Estabrooks, H. Jeremie, R. E. Hughes-Jones, R. K. Keeler, R. Rylko, R. M. Brown, Lorne Levinson, M. S. Dixit, M. Jimack, Frans Meijers, D. L. Rees, M. Hapke, M. Thiergen, H. Lafoux, D. E. Hutchcroft, Achim Stahl, F. Palmonari, Gilles Beaudoin, C. Sbarra, A. Skillman, F. Scharf, C. Markus, N. I. Geddes, German Martinez, J. J. Ward, W. Gorn, Michael Hildreth, P. Vikas, R. D. Heuer, P. M. Watkins, Giora Mikenberg, P. Schütz, E. do Couto e Silva, S. W. Gensler, Fabrizio Fabbri, S. Söldner-Rembol, A. S. Turcot, R. W. Springer, D. Lanske, A. D. Schaile, C. Hartmann, D. E. Plane, T. Kobayashi, J. Bechtluft, N. L. Rodning, B. Schmitt, Sven Menke, G. T. Jones, M. J. Oreglia, D. R. Ward, B. Stockhausen, Paul Kyberd, F. K. Loebinger, T. Kress, R. Lahmann, D. C. Imrie, M. Palazzo, J. A. McKenna, M. R. Ingram, E. H. Vokurka, James Pinfold, Stephen Hillier, Silvia Arcelli, G. M. Dallavalle, W. Matthews, B. Poli, S. Braibant, G. Yekutieli, D. R. Rust, Stefan Kluth, D. M. Gingrich, M. A. Thomson, E. Tsur, D. G. Fong, C. Lewis, Joleen Pater, C. Darling, Gabriella Pasztor, H. Mes, I. P. Duerdoth, Shlomit Tarem, J. Gascon, Paolo Giacomelli, M. Verzocchi, K. W. Bell, M. Hansroul, C. Y. Chang, E. K. U. Gross, R. Giacomelli, T. Hilse, R. Bartoldus, G. P. Siroli, J. King, P. Fath, O. Runolfsson, A. Gaidot, P. Mättig, J. Pálinkás, Shoji Asai, J. C. Hill, Gregor Herten, T. Wlodek, M. Sproston, S. M. Gascon-Shotkin, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, A. A. Carter, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, A. M. Lee, P. Taras, A. Rooke, Misao Sasaki, A. Malik, Carsten Daniel Burgard, J. G. Layter, Michael Kobel, M. Tecchio, A. H. Bain, I. J. Bloodworth, E. von Törne, J. W. Gary, Ron Folman, C. Beeston, E. A. Mckigney, W. P. Lai, R. Kowalewski, B. Wilkens, U. Müller, D. S. Koetke, C. Charlesworth, N. Tesch, J. R. Carter, G. N. Patrick, Otmar Biebel, Claudio Grandi, John Allison, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, Randall Sobie, Michael Schulz, G. D. Lafferty, Marcello Mannelli, Matthew Evans, Gunter Wolf, J. E. Pilcher, Julie Kirk, Stefania Xella, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, A. M. Rossi, R. J. Homer, F. X. Gentit, A. J. Martin, R. Howard, Yoram Rozen, A. Fürtjes, M. F. Turner-Watson, N. K. Watson, K. Ametewee, M. Morii, Peter R Hobson, J. E. Conboy, J. S. White, Roger Jones, S. Wotton, J. P. Pansart, H. M. Fischer, J. M. Roney, P. Scharff-Hansen, P. E.L. Clarke, P. Utzat, M. K. Jones, Gideon Alexander, M. Foucher, A. Michelini, Paolo Capiluppi, R. G. Kellogg, J. P. Martin, R. Van Kooten, M. Tscheulin, P. Routenburg, A. I. McNab, S. De Jong, M. G. Rison, Guenter Duckeck, Frank Fiedler, J. Letts, G. W. Wilson, Junichi Kanzaki, S. A. Robins, D. Karlen, J. Goldberg, W. Mohr, O. Schaile, A. Posthaus, P. S. Wells, B. Nellen, M. Fierro, S. W. O'Neale, Norbert Wermes, Sherry Towers, T. Kawamoto, H. Przysiezniak, K. J. Anderson, T. J. McMahon, J. E.G. Edwards, A. M. Smith, Terry Richard Wyatt, C. K. Hargrove, M. Starks, J. E. Bloomer, A. N. Bell, F. Wäckerle, G. Vasseur, B. Lorazo, H. G. Evans, M. J. Goodrick, I. Cohen, S. Orito, J. Schwiening, M. Rosvick, R. K. Carnegie, P. Berlich, J. A. Wilson, O. C. Cooke, J. von Krogh, Csaba Hajdu, R. J. Hawkings, Stefano Marcellini, L. A. del Pozo, Gideon Bella, H. J. Burckhart, Jacqueline Batley, G. Azuelos, T. Omori, H. O. Ogren, D. Rigby, R. J. Hemingway, D. Axen, A. Jawahery, T. Geralis, B. W. Kennedy, P. Jovanovic, Peter Sherwood, Peter Krieger, Manuella Vincter, Alessandro Montanari, J. Ludwig, K. Runge, P. Bock, Dave Charlton, C. Dallapiccola, R. Bürgin, P. Gagnon, N. Altekamp, R. J. Barlow, D. J. Miller, A. K. Honma, U. Jost, R. Mir, A. Sittler, H. Takeda, F. G. Oakham, E. L. Barberio, H. M. Bosch, J. Lauber, and F. Strumia
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Electron–positron annihilation ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Detector ,Scalar (mathematics) ,Lightest Supersymmetric Particle ,Lower limit ,Nuclear physics ,Chargino ,Neutralino ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model - Abstract
A search for charginos and neutralinos, predicted by supersymmetric theories, has been performed using a data sample of 2.6 pb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of S=130 GeV and 2.6 pb−1 at 136 GeV collected with the OPAL detector at LEP during November 1995. No candidate events were observed. The 95% C.L. lower limit on the lightest chargino mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is 65.4 GeV if the universal scalar mass m0 is greater than 1 TeV, and 58.7 GeV for the smallest m0 compatible with slepton and sneutrino mass limits obtained at centre-of-mass energies near the Z peak. These limits were obtained under the conditions that the lightest chargino is heavier than the lightest neutralino by more than 10 GeV and tan β is larger than 1.5. The results of a model independent search for charginos and neutralinos are also given.
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- 1996