Probing mSUGRA with a Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production using Trileptons

[摘要] This thesis describes the CDF II 2 fb{sup -1} search for supersymmetric chargino-neutralino production in {radical}s = 1.96TeV p{bar p} collisions using the 'golden' channel with three leptons and missing transverse energy in the final state and the application of the results to obtain a limit on the parameter space of the supersymmetric model mSUGRA. Electrons and muons are reconstructed directly; isolated tracks are used as a proxy for {tau} leptons. Several analysis channels with different signal purity are defined and evaluated independently. Based on 7 observed and 6.4 expected background events this analysis was able set the first direct limits on chargino-neutralino production in mSUGRA since LEP. Based on mSUGRA phenomenology the sensitivity of this analysis is investigated; the mSUGRA parameter space is split into different phenomenology classes. Experimental results from previous searches in this channel by CDF and D0 have been presented for specific parameter values of a given model. A more model-independent approach is proposed and, by splitting the results of this analysis into channels based on {tau} content, the results of the analysis are generalized.

[发布日期] 2008-10-01

[学科分类] 物理（综合）

[关键词] ELECTRONS;FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR;LEPTONS;MUONS;PRODUCTION;SENSITIVITY;TRANSVERSE ENERGY Experiment-HEP