The Production of Gluino Pairs in High Energy e+ e- Collisions

Abstract

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the process e+ e- -> gluino gluino is mediated by quark/squark loops, dominantly of the third generation, where the mixing of left- and right-handed states can become large. Taking into account realistic beam polarization effects, photon and Z0-boson exchange, and current mass exclusion limits, we scan the MSSM parameter space for various e+e- center-of-mass energies to determine the regions, where gluino production should be visible.

Comments: Talk presented at the SUSY 2002 conference. 7+1 pages, 5 figures