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T1 - Search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking topologies in $e^+ e^-$ collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 209-GeV
AU - ALEPH Collaboration, The
AU - Heister, A.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina
AU - Bowdery, Christopher
AU - Finch, Alexander
AU - Foster, Frank
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger
AU - Smizanska, Maria
PY - 2002/10
Y1 - 2002/10
N2 - A total of 628 bp-1 of data collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV is analysed in the search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) topologies. These topologies include two acoplanar photons, non-pointing single photons, acoplanar leptons, large impact parameter leptons, detached slepton decay vertices, heavy stable charged sleptons and multi-leptons plus missing energy final states. No evidence is found for new phenomena, and lower limits on masses of supersymmetric particles are derived. A scan of a minimal GMSB parameter space is performed and lower limits are set for the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) mass at 54 GeV/c2 and for the mass scale parameter Λ at 10 TeV/c2, independently of the NLSP lifetime. Including the results from the neutral Higgs boson searches, a NLSP mass limit of 77 GeV/c2 is obtained and values of Λ up to 16 TeV/c2 are excluded.
AB - A total of 628 bp-1 of data collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV is analysed in the search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) topologies. These topologies include two acoplanar photons, non-pointing single photons, acoplanar leptons, large impact parameter leptons, detached slepton decay vertices, heavy stable charged sleptons and multi-leptons plus missing energy final states. No evidence is found for new phenomena, and lower limits on masses of supersymmetric particles are derived. A scan of a minimal GMSB parameter space is performed and lower limits are set for the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) mass at 54 GeV/c2 and for the mass scale parameter Λ at 10 TeV/c2, independently of the NLSP lifetime. Including the results from the neutral Higgs boson searches, a NLSP mass limit of 77 GeV/c2 is obtained and values of Λ up to 16 TeV/c2 are excluded.
U2 - 10.1007/s10052-002-1005-z
DO - 10.1007/s10052-002-1005-z
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 339
EP - 351
JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 3
ER -