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Eur. Phys. J. C 25, 113-123 (2002)
DOI: 10.1007/s10052-002-0949-3

The Snowmass Points and Slopes: benchmarks for SUSY searches

B.C. Allanach1, M. Battaglia1, G.A. Blair2, M. Carena3, A. De Roeck1, A. Dedes4, A. Djouadi5, D. Gerdes6, N. Ghodbane7, J. Gunion8, H.E. Haber9, T. Han10, S. Heinemeyer11, J.L. Hewett12, I. Hinchliffe13, J. Kalinowski14, H.E. Logan3, S.P. Martin3, 15, H.-U. Martyn16, K.T. Matchev1, 17, S. Moretti1, 18, F. Moortgat19, G. Moortgat-Pick7, S. Mrenna3, U. Nauenberg20, Y. Okada21, K.A. Olive22, W. Porod23, 24, M. Schmitt25, S. Su26, C.E.M. Wagner27, 28, G. Weiglein18, J. Wells8, G.W. Wilson29, P. Zerwas7 and 29

1  CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
2  Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
3  Fermilab, Batavia IL 60510-0500, USA
4  University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
5  LPMT, Université de Montpellier II, 34000 Montpellier, France
6  Department of Physics, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120, USA
7  DESY, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
8  Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
9  Santa Cruz Inst. for Part. Phys., University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
10  Department of Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
11  HET Physics Department, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., NY 11973-5000, USA
12  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309, USA
13  Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Berkeley CA, USA
14  Institute of Theoretical Physics, UW, Hoza 69, 00681 Warsaw, Poland
15  Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
16  I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany
17  Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA
18  Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
19  University of Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
20  Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, USA
21  KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
22  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
23  Inst. für Hochenergiephysik, Öster. Akademie d. Wissenschaften, 1050 Vienna, Austria
24  Inst. für Theor. Physik, Universität Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
25  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
26  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
27  HEP Division, Argonne Nat. Lab., 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
28  Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA
29  University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA

(Received: 4 March 2002 / Published online: 26 July 2002 )

Abstract
The "Snowmass Points and Slopes" (SPS) are a set of benchmark points and parameter lines in the MSSM parameter space corresponding to different scenarios in the search for Supersymmetry at present and future experiments. This set of benchmarks was agreed upon at the 2001 "Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics" as a consensus based on different existing proposals.



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