Search for the Production of Gluinos and Squarks with the CDF II Experiment at the Tevatron Collider (open access)

Search for the Production of Gluinos and Squarks with the CDF II Experiment at the Tevatron Collider

This thesis reports on two searches for the production of squarks and gluinos, supersymmetric partners of the Standard Model (SM) quarks and gluons, using the CDF detector at the Tevatron √s = 1.96 TeV p$\bar{p}$ collider. An inclusive search for squarks and gluinos pair production is performed in events with large E<sub>T</sub> and multiple jets in the final state, based on 2 fb<sup>-1</sup> of CDF Run II data. The analysis is performed within the framework of minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) and assumes R-parity conservation where sparticles are produced in pairs. The expected signal is characterized by the production of multiple jets of hadrons from the cascade decays of squarks and gluinos and large missing transverse energy E<sub>T</sub> from the lightest supersymmetric particles (LSP). The measurements are in good agreement with SM predictions for backgrounds. The results are translated into 95% confidence level (CL) upper limits on production cross sections and squark and gluino masses in a given mSUGRA scenario. An upper limit on the production cross section is placed in the range between 1 pb and 0.1 pb, depending on the gluino and squark masses considered. The result of the search is negative for gluino and squark masses up to 392 …
Date: May 19, 2010
Creator: De Lorenzo, Gianluca
System: The UNT Digital Library