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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for spontaneous R-parity violation at √s = 183 and 189 GeV

Delphi CollaborationMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezEduardo Cortina GilMaría José Costa MezquitaAntonio Ferrer SoriaJuan A. Fuster VerdúCarmen García GarcíaInés Gil BotellaJuan José Hernández ReyEmilio Higón RodríguezArantza Oyanguren CamposV. PerepelitsaJosé Salt CairolsPablo Tortosa Martínez

subject

High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclearNuclear ExperimentPartícules (Física nuclear)

description

Searches for spontaneous R-parity violating signals at sqrt(s) = 183 GeV and sqrt(s) = 189 GeV have been performed using the 1997 and 1998 DELPHI data, under the assumption of R-parity breaking in the third lepton family. The expected topology for the decay of a pair of charginos into two acoplanar taus plus missing energy was investigated and no evidence for a signal was found. The results were used to derive a limit on the chargino mass and to constrain the allowed domains of the MSSM parameter space.

10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00143-5http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00143-5