Search for Supersymmetry Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production

TL;DR

This paper searches for supersymmetry via the trilepton signature from chargino-neutralino production at the Tevatron, finding results consistent with the standard model and setting limits on chargino masses.

Contribution

It presents a search for supersymmetry using the trilepton signature and constrains the mSUGRA model with new experimental data.

Findings

Observed 7 events, consistent with the expected 6.4 from the standard model.

Ruled out chargino masses up to 145 GeV/c^2 for specific parameters.

Provided new limits on supersymmetric particle production at the Tevatron.

Abstract

We use the three lepton and missing energy "trilepton" signature to search for chargino-neutralino production with $2.0 fb^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II experiment at the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider. We expect approximately 11 supersymmetric events for a specific choice of parameters of the mSUGRA model, but our observation of 7 events is consistent with the standard model expectation of 6.4 events. We constrain the mSUGRA model of supersymmetry and rule out chargino masses up to $145 GeV/c^2$ for a specific choice of parameters.