High-Precision Electroweak SUSY Production Cross Sections at e+e- Colliders

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive one-loop calculation of electroweak SUSY particle production cross sections at e+e- colliders, essential for future precision measurements and searches within the MSSM framework.

Contribution

It presents the first full one-loop evaluation of chargino, neutralino, and slepton production cross sections in the cMSSM, including complex parameter effects and photon radiation.

Findings

One-loop corrections can increase cross sections by up to 40%.

Dependence on complex parameters significantly affects production rates.

Full one-loop calculations are essential for accurate future collider analyses.

Abstract

For the search for electroweak (EW) particles in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as for future precision analyses of these particles an accurate knowledge of their production and decay properties is mandatory. We evaluate the cross sections for the chargino, neutralino and slepton production at e+e- colliders in the MSSM with complex parameters (cMSSM). The evaluation is based on a full one-loop calculation of all possible production channels including soft and hard photon radiation. The dependence of the cross sections on the relevant cMSSM parameters is analyzed numerically. We find sizable contributions to many production cross sections. They amount to roughly 15% of the tree-level results but can go up to 40% or higher in extreme cases. Also the dependence on complex parameters of the one-loop corrections for many production channels was found non-negligible. The full one-loop contributions are thus crucial for physics analyses at a future linear e+e- collider such as the ILC or CLIC.