51. Topological search for the production of neutralinos and scalar particles
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C. Sbarra, G. Yekutieli, Ehud Duchovni, J. Lauber, Shlomo Dado, A. S. Turcot, Dave Charlton, A. A. Carter, Ron Folman, M. Jimack, Roger Jones, P. E.L. Clarke, M. K. Jones, Otmar Biebel, P. Utzat, Reda Tafirout, S. W. Gensler, T. Kobayashi, J. P. Martin, M. Kobe, M. Tscheulin, Matthias Schröder, Giora Mikenberg, M. Thiergen, F. Strumia, M. G. Rison, R. Bürgin, Andris Skuja, S. Petzold, G. D. Long, Frank Fiedler, P. S. Wells, Terry Richard Wyatt, J. E. Bloomer, H. Mes, I. P. Duerdoth, P. Fath, H. M. Fischer, A. Michelini, O. Schaile, M. Starks, Sachio Komamiya, Theodoros Geralis, E. Ros, R. Kowalewski, B. Stockhausen, Paul Kyberd, S. A. Robins, E. Lefebvre, F. Odorici, T. P. Kokott, K. Ametewee, F. K. Loebinger, S. De Jong, Tara Shears, Gideon Alexander, A. Luig, H. Przysiezniak, R. W. Springer, Tetsuro Mashimo, K. Stephens, Paolo Capiluppi, Gregor Herten, D. J. Miller, J. Steuerer, A. I. McNab, J. Goldberg, B. Nellen, R. Bartoldus, B. Wilkens, I. J. Bloodworth, J. Letts, P. A. Hart, R. Lahmann, D. C. Imrie, M. Palazzo, H. O. Ogren, S. Braibant, Gabriella Pasztor, Norbert Wermes, T. Behnke, A. N. Bell, S. Yamashita, J. P. Pansart, Joleen Pater, W. R. Gibson, Richard Keeler, M. J. Pearce, Mathieu Doucet, Georges Azuelos, Sherry Towers, V. Gibson, J. E. Pilcher, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, T. J. McMahon, P. Igo-Kemenes, E. Tsur, S. M. Gascon-Shotkin, G. P. Siroli, J. King, R. D. Heuer, Fabrizio Fabbri, T. Kawamoto, B. T. Bouwens, M. Verzocchi, D. Axen, A. Jawahery, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, G. W. Wilson, K. W. Bell, J. Pálinkás, H. Jeremie, M. Hauschild, H. G. Evans, J. Schwiening, R. K. Carnegie, M. J. Goodrick, I. Cohen, M. Gruwé, J. C. Hill, Misao Sasaki, S. Söldner-Rembold, Peter Sherwood, M. Fierro, J. E.G. Edwards, C. Markus, C. M. Hawkes, R. E. Hughes-Jones, D. Chrisman, Volker Blobel, R. Giacomelli, Yoram Rozen, D. R. Rust, J. A. Wilson, W. J. McDonald, B. C. Shen, Siegfried Bethke, A. K. Honma, W. Gorn, G. T. Jones, Alexander Wagner, Ekg Sarkisyan, Lorne Levinson, P. W. Jeffreys, Matthew Evans, E. H. Vokurka, S. Orito, M. Rosvick, M. F. Turner-Watson, Achim Stahl, J. Ludwig, A. Rooke, D. R. Ward, H. Lafoux, A. M. Rossi, T. Kress, B. Nijjhar, W. G. Scott, J. G. Layter, M. Morii, Peter R Hobson, K. Runge, P. Bock, A. J. Martin, Gilles Beaudoin, Richard Nisius, R. Howard, M. Foucher, A. Skillman, A. M. Lee, P. Routenburg, P. Weber, Marco Cuffiani, Stephen Lloyd, M. Tecchio, E. von Törne, Robert M Brown, Gideon Bella, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, H. J. Burckhart, S. Asa, J. S. White, S. W. O'Neale, C. Charlesworth, M. R. Ingram, Dezso Horvath, M. J. Losty, Jean-Arcady Meyer, E. do Couto e Silva, P. Scharff-Hansen, P. Gagnon, Stefan Kluth, Shlomit Tarem, P. Bright-Thomas, K. J. Anderson, N. I. Geddes, Michael Hildreth, M. Hapke, D. E. Plane, S. L. Chu, Jacqueline Batley, B. Schmitt, O. C. Cooke, R. Van Kooten, Stephen Hillier, U. Müller, N. L. Rodning, B. Poli, C. K. Hargrove, D. Rigby, R. J. Hemingway, Stefania Xella, D. E. Hutchcroft, Junichi Kanzaki, G. M. Dallavalle, J. E. Conboy, J. J. Ward, P. Vikas, A. Fürtjes, P. Poffenberger, A. M. Smith, Sven Menke, A. Sittler, G. Vasseur, B. Lorazo, F. Wäckerle, D. Karlen, C. Burgard, T. Omori, D. M. Gingrich, Alan Watson, J. von Krogh, D. Lanske, B. W. Kennedy, P. Jovanovic, Silvia Arcelli, P. Schütz, M. J. Oreglia, P. Berlich, R. J. Hawkings, A. Gaidot, Gunter Wolf, F. X. Gentit, H. M. Bosch, G. G. Hanson, L. A. del Pozo, Austin Ball, Peter Krieger, James Pinfold, C. Y. Chang, D. G. Fong, C. Lewis, J. Gascon, D. M. Strom, C. Darling, P. Taras, T. J. Smith, Manuella Vincter, Alessandro Montanari, Paolo Giacomelli, M. Hansroul, A. Malik, G. Giacomelli, E. A. Mckigney, J. W. Gary, P. Mättig, D. S. Koetke, S. Wotton, Marcello Mannelli, R. J. Homer, J. R. Carter, G. N. Patrick, Julie Kirk, U. Jost, R. Mir, H. Fukui, P. Schenk, R. Rylko, Daniel Lellouch, T. Hilse, S. B. Anderson, C. Hartmann, Takehiko Mori, P. Szymanski, F. S. Merritt, O. Runolfsson, W. P. Lai, V. Zacek, H. Takeda, M. S. Dixit, Frans Meijers, F. G. Oakham, E. L. Barberio, C. Dallapiccola, C. Beeston, A. Joly, N. Altekamp, Stan Bentvelsen, R. J. Barlow, J. Bechtluft, J. A. McKenna, Claudio Grandi, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, Randall Sobie, Michael Schulz, G. D. Lafferty, Guenter Duckeck, J. M. Roney, John Allison, Madjid Boutemeur, R. G. Kellogg, Csaba Hajdu, Stefano Marcellini, P. G. Estabrooks, P. M. Watkins, Koji Yoshimura, D. L. Rees, F. Scharf, German Martinez, A. D. Schaile, N. K. Watson, W. Mohr, A. Posthaus, W. Matthews, M. A. Thomson, E. K. U. Gross, T. Wlodek, M. Sproston, and N. Tesch
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Missing energy ,Electron–positron annihilation ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Scalar (mathematics) ,Supersymmetry ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,law ,Neutralino ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Collider ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model - Abstract
A search for scalar particles and neutralinos such as those predicted by supersymmetric models has been performed using a data sample of 4.4 million hadronic Z 0 decays recorded by the OPAL detector at the e + e − collider LEP. The production of such particles typically leads to event topologies consisting of an acoplanar pair of jets, or of a mono-jet, accompanied by sizeable missing energy owing to neutrinos and other undetectable neutral particles. Limits are obtained, at the 95% confidence level, on the masses and production rates of scalar particles produced in association with the Z 0 . Limits are also placed on neutralino production, for which an additional possible signature is also studied, events containing a single observed photon. Within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, the mass of the lightest neutralino is found to be larger than 12.5 GeV/ c 2 at 95% C.L., provided that tan β is larger than 1.5.
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- 1996
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