Report of the SUGRA Working Group for Run II of the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper assesses the potential for discovering supersymmetric particles at the upgraded Tevatron collider, updating production cross sections, background estimates, and discovery reach within the supergravity framework, considering various assumptions and experimental constraints.

Contribution

It provides updated estimates of supersymmetric particle discovery potential at Tevatron Run II, including effects of relaxing universality assumptions and improved background analysis.

Findings

Charginos and neutralinos detectable up to 200-250 GeV

Squarks and gluinos detectable up to 400 GeV

Tevatron has significant physics discovery opportunities

Abstract

We present an analysis of the discovery reach for supersymmetric particles at the upgraded Tevatron collider, assuming that SUSY breaking results in universal soft breaking parameters at the grand unification scale, and that the lightest supersymmetric particle is stable and neutral. We first present a review of the literature, including the issues of unification, renormalization group evolution of the supersymmetry breaking parameters and the effect of radiative corrections on the effective low energy couplings and masses of the theory. We consider the experimental bounds coming from direct searches and those arising indirectly from precision data, cosmology and the requirement of vacuum stability. The issues of flavor and CP-violation are also addressed. The main subject of this study is to update sparticle production cross sections, make improved estimates of backgrounds, delineate the discovery reach in the supergravity framework, and examine how this might vary when assumptions about universality of soft breaking parameters are relaxed. With 30 fb$^{-1}$ luminosity and one detector, charginos and neutralinos, as well as third generation squarks, can be seen if their masses are not larger than 200-250 GeV, while first and second generation squarks and gluinos can be discovered if their masses do not significantly exceed 400 GeV. We conclude that there are important and exciting physics opportunities at the Tevatron collider, which will be significantly enhanced by continued Tevatron operation beyond the first phase of Run II.