Search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking topologies in e(+)e(-) collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV

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doi:10.1007/s10052-002-1005-z

A total of 628 pb(-1) of data collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV is analysed in the search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) topologies. These topologies include two acoplanar photons, non-pointing single photons, acoplanar leptons, large impact parameter leptons, detached slepton decay vertices, heavy stable charged sleptons and multi-leptons plus missing energy final states. No evidence is found for new phenomena, and lower limits on masses of supersymmetric particles are derived. A scan of a minimal GMSB parameter space is performed and lower limits are set for the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) mass at 54 GeV/c(2) and for the mass scale parameter A at 10 TeV/c(2), independently of the NLSP lifetime. Including the results from the neutral Higgs boson searches, a NLSP mass limit of 77 GeV/c(2) is obtained and values of A up to 16TeV/c(2) are excluded.