Excluding light gluinos using four-jet LEP events: a next-to-leading order result

Abstract

Based upon a next-to-leading order perturbative calculation of the four-jet production rate in electron-positron annihilation and assuming 8 % for the theoretical error emerging from hadronization effects in the $0.002\le \text{ycut}\le 0.004$ range for the Durham clustering algorithm, we exclude the existence of the light gluinos at the 95 % confidence level.

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