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Squarks

The generator simulates some R-parity violating supersymmetry processes. R-parity violating terms in the supersymmetric lagrangian violate either lepton or baryon number. The squark production mechanism is analogous to that of leptoquarks and if the squark decays back to the initial state it has an identical behaviour to some types of leptoquarks. In supersymmetric theories, however, the squarks have couplings through which they can cascade decay to the lightest supersymmetric particle. A direct consequence of this is that the total decay width of the squarks differs from the corresponding decay width of the leptoquarks [4]:

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where tex2html_wrap_inline1360 is the photino mass, tex2html_wrap_inline1362 the squark mass and tex2html_wrap_inline1364 the R-parity violating coupling. Super-symmeterised standard model decays are not included in this generator.

We have included the production and decay of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (stop) in R-parity breaking models according to reference 5. The stop, tex2html_wrap_inline1366 , is generally represented in terms of the mass eigenstates, tex2html_wrap_inline1368 and tex2html_wrap_inline1370 , as

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where tex2html_wrap_inline1372 is a mixing angle. It is noted that the eigenstate tex2html_wrap_inline1368 could be lighter than the top quark and that tex2html_wrap_inline1368 in this R-parity violating model is equivalent to the tex2html_wrap_inline1378 leptoquark with

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in the calculation of the width

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where tex2html_wrap_inline1380 is the R-parity violating coupling.

For R-parity violating supersymmetry processes the possible reactions, implemented in this generator, proceeding from an electron beam are as follows.

  1. tex2html_wrap_inline1382 ,
  2. tex2html_wrap_inline1384 ,
  3. tex2html_wrap_inline1386 or
  4. tex2html_wrap_inline1388 .

An equivalent set of processes have also been coded for a positron beam. By analogy tex2html_wrap_inline1390 , tex2html_wrap_inline1392 and tex2html_wrap_inline1394 in the limit of vanishing photino mass.



Douglas M. Gingrich
Fri Mar 29 09:41:51 MST 1996