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Search for squark production in R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA

  • A. Aktas
  • , V. Andreev
  • , T. Anthonis
  • , A. Asmone
  • , A. Babaev
  • , S. Backovic
  • , J. Bähr
  • , P. Baranov
  • , E. Barrelet
  • , W. Bartel
  • , S. Baumgartner
  • , J. Becker
  • , M. Beckingham
  • , O. Behnke
  • , O. Behrendt
  • , A. Belousov
  • , Ch Berger
  • , N. Berger
  • , T. Berndt
  • , J. C. Bizot
  • J. Böhme, M. O. Boenig, V. Boudry, J. Bracinik, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, D. Bruncko, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, S. Caron, F. Cassol-Brunner, K. Cerny, V. Chekelian, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, M. C. Cousinou, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, B. Delcourt, R. Demirchyan, A. de Roeck, K. Desch, E. A. de Wolf, C. Diaconu, J. Dingfelder, V. Dodonov, A. Dubak, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J.W. Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, M. Fleischer, P. Fleischmann, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flucke, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, G. Frising, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, E. Garutti, J. Garvey, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich, S. Ghazaryan, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, S. Gorbounov, C. Grab, H. Grässler, T. Greenshaw, M. Gregori, G. Grindhammer, C. Gwilliam, D. Haidt, L. Hajduk, J. Haller, M. Hansson, G. Heinzelmann, R. C.W. Henderson, H. Henschel, O. Henshaw, R. Heremans, G. Herrera, I. Herynek, R. D. Heuer, M. Hildebrandt, K. H. Hiller, J. Hladký, P. Höting, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, A. Hovhannisyan, M. Ibbotson, M. Ismail, M. Jacquet, L. Janauschek, X. Janssen, V. Jemanov, L. Jönsson, D. P. Johnson, H. Jung, D. Kant, M. Kapichine, M. Karlsson, J. Katzy, N. Keller, J. Kennedy, I. R. Kenyon, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, T. Kluge, G. Knies, A. Knutsson, B. Koblitz, V. Korbel, P. Kostka, R. Koutouev, A. Kropivnitskaya, J. Kroseberg, J. Kückens, T. Kuhr, M. P.J. Landon, W. Lange, T. Laštovička, P. Laycock, A. Lebedev, B. Leißner, R. Lemrani, V. Lendermann, S. Levonian, L. Lindfeld, K. Lipka, B. List, E. Lobodzinska, N. Loktionova, R. Lopez-Fernandez, V. Lubimov, H. Lueders, D. Lüke, T. Lux, L. Lytkin, A. Makankine, N. Malden, E. Malinovski, S. Mangano, P. Marage, J. Marks, R. Marshall, M. Martisikova, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, D. Meer, A. Mehta, K. Meier, A. B. Meyer, H. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Michine, S. Mikocki, I. Milcewicz, D. Milstead, A. Mohamed, F. Moreau, A. Morozov, I. Morozov, J. V. Morris, M. U. Mozer, K. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, B. Naroska, J. Naumann, Th Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, A. Nikiforov, D. Nikitin, G. Nowak, M. Nozicka, R. Oganezov, B. Olivier, J. E. Olsson, G. Ossoskov, D. Ozerov, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, M. Peez, E. Perez, A. Perieanu, A. Petrukhin, D. Pitzl, R. Placakyte, R. Pöschl, B. Portheault, B. Povh, N. Raicevic, Z. Ratiani, P. Reimer, B. Reisert, A. Rimmer, C. Risler, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, B. Roland, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, Z. Rurikova, S. Rusakov, K. Rybicki, D. P.C. Sankey, E. Sauvan, S. Schätzel, J. Scheins, F. P. Schilling, P. Schleper, S. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, M. Schneider, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, V. Schröder, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, C. Schwanenberger, K. Sedlák, F. Sefkow, I. Sheviakov, L. N. Shtarkov, Y. Sirois, T. Sloan, P. Smirnov, Y. Soloviev, D. South, V. Spaskov, A. Specka, H. Spitzer, R. Stamen, B. Stella, J. Stiewe, I. Strauch, U. Straumann, G. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, F. Tomasz, D. Traynor, P. Truöl, G. Tsipolitis, I. Tsurin, J. Turnau, E. Tzamariudaki, A. Uraev, M. Urban, A. Usik, D. Utkin, S. Valkár, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, A. Vargas Trevino, S. Vassiliev, Y. Vazdik, C. Veelken, A. Vest, A. Vichnevski, S. Vinokurova, V. Volchinski, K. Wacker, J. Wagner, G. Weber, R. Weber, D. Wegener, C. Werner, N. Werner, M. Wessels, B. Wessling, G. G. Winter, Ch Wissing, E. E. Woehrling, R. Wolf, E. Wunsch, S. Xella, W. Yan, J. Žáček, J. Zálešýk, Z. Zhang, A. Zhokin, H. Zohrabyan, F. Zomer
  • c/o DESY
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • University Roma Tre
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • ETH Zurich
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Heidelberg
  • University of Dortmund
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Charles University
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • University of Birmingham
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • CINVESTAV-IPN
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of P.J. Šafárik
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

A search for squarks in R-parity violating supersymmetry is performed in e ±p collisions at HERA using the HI detector. The data were taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 64.3pb -1 for e +p collisions and 13.5pb -1 for e -p collisions. The resonant production of squarks via a Yukawa coupling λ′ is considered, taking into account direct and indirect R-parity violating decay modes. No evidence for squark production is found in the multi-lepton and multi-jet final state topologies investigated. Mass dependent limits on λ′ are obtained in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In addition, the results are interpreted in terms of constraints on the parameters of the minimal Supergravity model. At the 95 % confidence level squarks of all flavours with masses up to 275 GeV are excluded in a large part of the parameter space for a Yukawa coupling of electromagnetic strength. For a coupling strength 100 times smaller, masses up to 220 GeV can be ruled out.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)425-440
Number of pages16
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2004

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