Hadroproduction of supersymmetric particles

Abstract

We use a fusion model to calculate cross sections for the production of the spinor gluons (gluinos) and scalar quarks (squarks) whose existence is predicted by supersymmetric theories. We find that the cross section for gluino production is considerably larger than for squark production if the masses are comparable. We reanalyse the results of the CERN beam dump which turn out to give a disappointingly weak limit on the mass of the gluino. The limit could be improved significantly by careful searches for events with missing transverse momentum at the ISR and pp collider.