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Search for chargino and neutralino productionat \(\sqrt{s} = 192\)-209 GeV at LEP

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Approximately 438 pb-1 of e + e- data from the OPAL detector, taken with the LEP collider running at centre-of-mass energies of 192-209 GeV, are analyzed to search for evidence of chargino pair production, \({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^ + _1\tilde\chi^-_1\), or neutralino associated production, \({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^0_2\tilde\chi^0_1\). Limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the product of the cross-section for the process \({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^ + _1\tilde\chi^-_1\) and its branching ratios to topologies containing jets and missing energy, or jets with a lepton and missing energy, and on the product of the cross-section for \({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^0_2\tilde\chi^0_1\) and its branching ratio to jets. R-parity conservation is assumed throughout this paper. When these results are interpreted in the context of the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, limits are also set on the masses of the \(\tilde\chi^{\pm}_1, \tilde\chi^0_1\) and \(\tilde\chi^0_2\), and regions of the parameter space of the model are ruled out. Nearly model-independent limits are also set at the 95% confidence level on \(\sigma({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^ + _1\tilde\chi^-_1)\) with the assumption that each chargino decays via a W boson, and on \(\sigma({\mathrm{e}}^ + {\mathrm{e}}^-\to\tilde\chi^0_2\tilde\chi^0_1)\) with the \(\tilde\chi^0_2\) assumed to decay via a Z0.

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Received: 15 December 2003, Revised: 16 February 2004, Published online: 23 April 2004

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The OPAL Collaboration. Search for chargino and neutralino productionat \(\sqrt{s} = 192\)-209 GeV at LEP. Eur. Phys. J. C 35, 1–20 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01758-8

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