Stop production at hadron colliders
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چکیده
Stop particles are expected to be the lightest squarks in supersymmetric theories and the search for these particles is an important experimental task. We therefore present the cross sections for the production processes pp̄/pp → t̃1t1 and t̃2t2 at Tevatron and LHC energies in next-to-leading order supersymmetric QCD. The corrections stabilize the theoretical predictions for the cross sections, and they are positive, thus raising the cross sections to values above the leading-order predictions. Mixed t̃1 t2/ t1t̃2 pairs can only be generated in higher orders at strongly suppressed rates. Research supported by a fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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