The production of invisible pairs of lightest neutralinos accompanied by a large-angle hard photon in the reaction $e^+ e^- to chi^0_1 chi^0_1 gamma$ is studied at LEP2 energies. The most general gaugino/higgsino composition of the $chi^0_1$ within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is assumed. The spectrum of the observed photon is derived within the framework of the $p_t$-dependent structure-function approach, whose accuracy is assessed to be within the foreseen experimental accuracy at LEP2. Higher-order QED corrections due to undetected initial-state radiation are also included. A comparison with the Standard Model main background from $e^+ e^- to u bar u gamma$ is performed for optimized photon kinematical cuts. Quantitative conclusions on the signal/background ratio are given for a wide range of values of the SUSY parameters.
In the energy region of LEP2 and above, four fermion final states in e+e- collisions can be produced by Feynman diagrams involving two, one or zero resonant bosons...
In this report we review the prospects for Higgs physics at LEP2. The theoretical aspects and the phenomenology of Higgs particles are discussed within the Standard Model (SM) and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The experimental search techniques are described and the discovery limits for Higgs bosons in the LEP2 energy range are summarized. In addition, opportunities of detecting Higgs particles in non-minimal extensions of the SM and the MSSM are investigated.
We consider the possibility that one extra $Zequiv Z$ exists with arbitrary mass and fermion couplings that do not violate (charged) lepton universality. We show that, in such a situation, a functional relationship is generated between the underline{deviations} from the SM values of three leptonic observables of two-fermion production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders that is completely independent of the values of the $Z$ mass and couplings. This selects a certain region in the 3-d space of the deviations that is underline{characteristic} of the model ($Z$ reservation). As a specific and relevant example, we show the picture that would emerge at LEP2 under realistic experimental conditions.
This report is an overview of the gamma-gamma physics capabilities of LEP2, and covers the following topics: structure functions, equivalent photon approximation, tagging conditions etc, soft and semihard physics, large-$p_t$ processes, heavy-quark physics, and exclusive channels.
Single top quark production via four-fermion contact interactions associated to flavour-changing neutral currents was searched for in data taken by the DELPHI detector at LEP2. The data were accumulated at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 189 to 209 GeV, with an integrated luminosity of 598.1 pb^-1. No evidence for a signal was found. Limits on the energy scale Lambda, were set for scalar-, vector- and tensor-like coupling scenarios.