Spin Asymmetries in Squark and Gluino Production at Polarized Hadron Colliders

We study the production cross sections for squarks and gluinos in collision of longitudinally polarized hadrons. The corresponding polarized partonic cross sections are computed in leading order supersymmetric QCD. The resulting asymmetries are evaluated for the polarized proton collider RHIC, as well as for hypothetical polarized options of the Tevatron and the LHC. These asymmetries turn out to be sizable over a wide range of supersymmetric particle masses. Once supersymmetric particles are discovered in unpolarized collisions, a measurement of the spin asymmetries would thus potentially help to establish the properties of the newly discovered particles and open a window to detailed sparticle spectroscopy at future polarized hadron colliders.