Search for 3- and 4-body decays of the scalar top quark in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

V. M. Abazov, B. Abbott, A. Abdesselam, M. Abolins, V. Abramov, B. S. Acharya, D. L. Adams, M. Adams, S. N. Ahmed, G. D. Alexeev, A. Alton, G. A. Alves, E. W. Anderson, Y. Arnoud, C. Avila, V. V. Babintsev, L. Babukhadia, T. C. Bacon, A. Baden, S. BaffioniB. Baldin, P. W. Balm, S. Banerjee, E. Barberis, P. Baringer, J. Barreto, J. F. Bartlett, U. Bassler, D. Bauer, A. Bean, F. Beaudette, M. Begel, A. Belyaev, S. B. Beri, G. Bernardi, I. Bertram, A. Besson, R. Beuselinck, V. A. Bezzubov, P. C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, G. Blazey, F. Blekman, S. Blessing, A. Boehnlein, N. I. Bojko, T. A. Bolton, F. Borcherding, K. Bos, T. Bose, A. Brandt, R. Breedon, G. Briskin, R. Brock, G. Brooijmans, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, M. Buehler, V. Buescher, V. S. Burtovoi, J. M. Butler, F. Canelli, W. Carvalho, D. Casey, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, K. M. Chan, S. V. Chekulaev, D. K. Cho, S. Choi, S. Chopra, D. Claes, A. R. Clark, L. Coney, B. Connolly, W. E. Cooper, D. Coppage, S. Crépé-Renaudin, M. A.C. Cummings, D. Cutts, H. da Motta, G. A. Davis, K. De, S. J. de Jong, M. Demarteau, R. Demina, P. Demine, D. Denisov, S. P. Denisov, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, S. Doulas, L. V. Dudko, S. Duensing, L. Duflot, S. R. Dugad, A. Duperrin, A. Dyshkant, D. Edmunds, J. Ellison, J. T. Eltzroth, V. D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O. V. Eroshin, J. Estrada, H. Evans, V. N. Evdokimov, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, F. Filthaut, H. E. Fisk, F. Fleuret, M. Fortner, H. Fox, S. Fu, S. Fuess, E. Gallas, A. N. Galyaev, M. Gao, V. Gavrilov, R. J. Genik, K. Genser, C. E. Gerber, Y. Gershtein, G. Ginther, B. Gómez, P. I. Goncharov, H. Gordon, K. Gounder, A. Goussiou, N. Graf, P. D. Grannis, J. A. Green, H. Greenlee, Z. D. Greenwood, S. Grinstein, L. Groer, S. Grünendahl, S. N. Gurzhiev, G. Gutierrez, P. Gutierrez, N. J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, R. E. Hall, C. Han, S. Hansen, J. M. Hauptman, C. Hebert, D. Hedin, J. M. Heinmiller, A. P. Heinson, U. Heintz, M. D. Hildreth, R. Hirosky, J. D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J. Huang, Y. Huang, I. Iashvili, R. Illingworth, A. S. Ito, M. Jaffré, S. Jain, R. Jesik, K. Johns, M. Johnson, A. Jonckheere, H. Jöstlein, A. Juste, W. Kahl, S. Kahn, E. Kajfasz, A. M. Kalinin, D. Karmanov, D. Karmgard, R. Kehoe, A. Khanov, A. Kharchilava, B. Klima, W. Ko, J. M. Kohli, A. V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, B. Kothari, A. V. Kozelov, E. A. Kozlovsky, J. Krane, M. R. Krishnaswamy, P. Krivkova, S. Krzywdzinski, M. Kubantsev, S. Kuleshov, Y. Kulik, S. Kunori, A. Kupco, V. E. Kuznetsov, G. Landsberg, W. M. Lee, A. Leflat, F. Lehner, C. Leonidopoulos, J. Li, Q. Z. Li, J. G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S. L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, A. Lucotte, L. Lueking, C. Lundstedt, C. LUO, A. K.A. Maciel, R. J. Madaras, V. L. Malyshev, V. Manankov, H. S. Mao, T. Marshall, M. I. Martin, A. A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, T. McMahon, H. L. Melanson, M. Merkin, K. W. Merritt, C. Miao, H. Miettinen, D. Mihalcea, N. Mokhov, N. K. Mondal, H. E. Montgomery, R. W. Moore, Y. D. Mutaf, E. Nagy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V. S. Narasimham, N. A. Naumann, H. A. Neal, J. P. Negret, A. Nomerotski, T. Nunnemann, D. O'Neil, V. Oguri, B. Olivier, N. Oshima, P. Padley, K. Papageorgiou, N. Parashar, R. Partridge, N. Parua, A. Patwa, O. Peters, P. Pétroff, R. Piegaia, B. G. Pope, E. Popkov, H. B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, M. B. Przybycien, J. Qian, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, P. A. Rapidis, N. W. Reay, S. Reucroft, M. Ridel, M. Rijssenbeek, F. Rizatdinova, T. Rockwell, C. Royon, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, B. M. Sabirov, G. Sajot, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R. D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, A. Schwartzman, E. Shabalina, R. K. Shivpuri, D. Shpakov, M. Shupe, R. A. Sidwell, V. Simak, V. Sirotenko, P. Slattery, R. P. Smith, G. R. Snow, J. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, Y. Song, V. Sorín, M. Sosebee, N. Sotnikova, K. Soustruznik, M. Souza, N. R. Stanton, G. Steinbrück, D. Stoker, V. Stolin, A. Stone, D. A. Stoyanova, M. A. Strang, M. Strauss, M. Strovink, L. Stutte, A. Sznajder, M. Talby, W. Taylor, S. Tentindo-Repond, S. M. Tripathi, T. G. Trippe, A. S. Turcot, P. M. Tuts, R. Van Kooten, V. Vaniev, N. Varelas, F. Villeneuve-Seguier, A. A. Volkov, A. P. Vorobiev, H. D. Wahl, Z. M. Wang, J. Warchol, G. Watts, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, A. White, D. Whiteson, D. A. Wijngaarden, S. Willis, S. J. Wimpenny, J. Womersley, D. R. Wood, Q. Xu, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, T. Yasuda, Y. A. Yatsunenko, K. Yip, S. Youssef, J. Yu, M. Zanabria, X. Zhang, H. Zheng, B. Zhou, Z. Zhou, M. Zielinski, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, V. Zutshi, E. G. Zverev, A. Zylberstejn

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Abstract

We have searched for the signature of 3- and 4-body decays of pair-produced scalar top quarks (stop) in the inclusive final state containing an electron, a muon, and significant missing transverse energy using a sample of pp̄ events corresponding to 108.3 pb-1 of data collected with the DØ detector at Fermilab. The search is done in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model assuming that the neutralino (χ̃10) is the lightest supersymmetric particle and is stable. No evidence for a signal is found and we derive cross-section upper limits as a function of stop (t̃) and neutralino masses in different decay scenarios leading to the bℓνχ̃10 final state.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)147-155
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume581
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 19 2004
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We thank the staffs at Fermilab and collaborating institutions, and acknowledge support from the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation (USA), Commissariat à L'Energie Atomique and CNRS/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Ministry for Science and Technology and Ministry for Atomic Energy (Russia), CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), Departments of Atomic Energy and Science and Education (India), Colciencias (Colombia), CONACyT (Mexico), Ministry of Education and KOSEF (Korea), CONICET and UBACyT (Argentina), The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (The Netherlands), PPARC (United Kingdom), Ministry of Education (Czech Republic), A.P. Sloan Foundation, and the Research Corporation.

FundersFunder number
Departments of Atomic Energy and Science and Education (India), Colciencias
Ministry for Atomic Energy
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Ministry of Science and Technology
Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Ministry of Education
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Korea Science and Engineering Foundation
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

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