Squark and gluino production at the pp collider

We present detailed calculations of the missing energy and jet signatures for squark and gluino pair-production at the CERN $\text{p}\text{p}$ collider, incorporating three improvements over previous analyses. These include smearing in transverse momentum at production, the fragmentation of supersymmetric partons into supersymmetric hadrons, and the hadronization of their decay products as well as of the residual jets. We find that previous estimates of supersymmetric signatures are not substantially altered by the inclusion of smearing and fragmentation. We present rapidity and transverse momentum distributions for both primary and secondary jets, and discuss variations in the trigger conditions which could increase the number of two-jet events and help discriminate between different models for the monojet events. We find that gluinos give fatter jets than do squarks of the same mass, although it is not easy to understand the thinness of the observed monojets if they are due to squarks of mass O(40) GeV. We emphasize that the key feature to clarify the supersymmetric interpretation of missing p_T events is the study of secondary jet production in mono- and dijet events.