P - PH - 9 50 54 16 DESY 95 - 104 May 1995 Gluino - Pair Production at the Tevatron

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of gluino pairs at the Tevatron are presented in this paper. Similar to the production of squark-antisquark pairs, the dependence of the cross section on the renormalization/factorization scale is reduced considerably by including the higher-order corrections. The cross section increases with respect to the lowest-order calculation which, in previous experimental analyses, had been evaluated at the scale of the invariant energy of the partonic subprocesses. present address Supported by Bundesministerium f ur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Bonn, Germany, under Contract 05 6 HH 93P (5) and by EU Program Human Capital and Mobility through Network Physics at High Energy Colliders under Contract CHRX{CT93{0357 (DG12 COMA).