PROSPINO: A Program for the Production of Supersymmetric Particles in Next-to-leading Order QCD

TL;DR

PROSPINO is a Fortran program that calculates supersymmetric particle production cross-sections at hadron colliders, incorporating full next-to-leading order SUSY-QCD corrections for various final states, enabling detailed differential and total cross-section analyses.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive Fortran tool for NLO SUSY-QCD calculations of squark and gluino production at colliders, including differential distributions and customizable cuts.

Findings

Accurate cross-section calculations including NLO corrections.

Ability to compute differential distributions in p_t and y.

Flexible implementation of kinematic cuts.

Abstract

A Fortran-program for the production cross-sections of squarks and gluinos at hadron colliders is described. It includes full next-to-leading order SUSY-QCD corrections to all possible final states ($\squark\squarkbar, \gluino\gluino, \squark\gluino, \squark\squark$). The program allows to calculate total cross-sections as well as differential distributions in the transverse momentum p_t and the rapidity y of one of the outgoing particles. In addition cuts in p_t and y can easily be implemented.