Search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking topologies in $e^+ e^-$ collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 25; pp. 339 - 351
• Main Authors: Heister, A., Schael, S., Barate, R., Bruneliere, R., de Bonis, I., Decamp, D., Goy, C., Jezequel, S., Lees, J P., Martin, F., Merle, E., Minard, M N., Pietrzyk, B., Trocme, B., Boix, G., Bravo, S., Casado, M P., Chmeissani, M., Crespo, J M., Fernandez, E., Fernandez-Bosman, M., Garrido, L., Grauges, E., Lopez, J., Martinez, M., Merino, G., Miquel, R., Mir, L M., Pacheco, A., Paneque, D., Ruiz, H., Colaleo, A., Creanza, D., de Filippis, N., de Palma, M., Iaselli, G., Maggi, G., Maggi, M., Nuzzo, S., Ranieri, A., Raso, G., Ruggieri, F., Selvaggi, G., Silvestris, L., Tempesta, P., Tricomi, A., Zito, G., Huang, X., Lin, Jiali, Ouyang, Q., Wang, T., Xie, Y., Xu, R., Xue, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, W., Abbaneo, D., Azzurri, P., Barklow, T., Buchmueller, O., Cattaneo, M., Cerutti, F., Drevermann, H., Forty, R W., Frank, M., Gianotti, F., Greening, T C., Hansen, J B., Harvey, J., Hutchcroft, D E., Janot, P., Jost, B., Kado, M., Mato, P., Moutoussi, A., Ranjard, F., Rolandi, L., Schlatter, D., Sguazzoni, G., Tejessy, W., Teubert, F., Valassi, A., Videau, I., Ward, J J., Badaud, F., Dessagne, S., Falvard, Alain, Fayolle, D., Gay, Pascal, Jousset, J., Michel, B., Monteil, S., Pallin, D., Pascolo, J M., Perret, Pascal, Hansen, J D., Hansen, J R., Hansen, P H., Nilsson, B S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 01.10.2002
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1007/s10052-002-1005-z

A total of 628$\invpb$ of data collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209\,GeV is analysed in the search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) topologies. These topologies include two acoplanar photons, non-pointing single photons, acoplanar leptons, large impact parameter leptons, detached slepton decay vertices, heavy stable charged sleptons and multi-leptons plus missing energy final states. No evidence is found for new phenomena, and lower limits on masses of supersymmetric particles are derived. A scan of a minimal GMSB parameter space is performed and lower limits are set for the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) mass at 54$\gevcc$ and for the mass scale parameter $\Lambda$ at 10$\tevcc$, independently of the NLSP lifetime. Including the results from the neutral Higgs boson searches, a NLSP mass limit of 77$\gevcc$ is obtained and values of $\Lambda$ up to 16$\tevcc$ are excluded.