Gluino Pair Production in e^+e^- and Photon-Photon Collisions at CERN CLIC

Abstract

We confront the generally small cross sections for gluino pair production in e^+e^- annihilation with the much larger ones in photon-photon scattering at a multi-TeV linear collider like CERN CLIC. The larger rates and the steeper rise of the cross section at threshold may allow for a precise gluino mass determination in high-energy photon-photon collisions for a wide range of squark masses and post-LEP SUSY benchmark points.

Comments: To appear in the CERN Yellow Report from the CLIC Physics Study Group. 6 pages, 3 figures