2007/03/12 by Orhan Cakir, Ö. Çakır, İ. Türk Çakır +9
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0703121
28 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables, V3
openalex publication_date 2007/03/12 · arxiv created 2008/03/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider scenarios in which the lightest sparticle (LSP) is the gravitino and the next-to-lightest sparticle (NLSP) is a metastable stau. We examine the production of stau pairs in e+e- annihilation at ILC and CLIC energies. In addition to three minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) benchmark scenarios proposed previously, we consider a new high-mass scenario in which effects catalyzed by stau bound states yield abundances of 6,7Li that fit the astrophysical data better than standard Big-Bang nucleosynthesis. This scenario could be probed only at CLIC energies. In each scenario, we show how the stau mixing angle may be determined from measurements of the total stau pair-production cross sections with polarized beams, and of the tau polarization in stau decays. Using realistic ILC and CLIC luminosity spectra, we find for each scenario the centre-of-mass energy that maximizes the number of staus with βγ< 0.4, that may be trapped in a generic detector. The dominant sources of such slow-moving staus are generically the pair production and cascade decays of heavier sparticles with higher thresholds, and the optimal centre-of-mass energy is typically considerably beyond 2 mτ1.