Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 50: 353-362
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0252-4

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Interactions of coloured heavy stable particles in matter

¹ Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100, Copenhagen E, Denmark
² Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

^* e-mail: rasmack@nbi.dk

Received: 12 October 2006
Revised: 9 January 2007
Published online: 13 March 2007

Abstract

In this paper we present a physics model for the interactions of stable heavy hadrons containing a heavy parton with matter. The model presented is a natural continuation of the work started in [1]. However, changes and generalisations have been made allowing for the description of a broader scope of physics scenarios. As a special case the model is tested on the cases of stable gluino and stop hadrons, thus covering both stable colour triplet and octet states. Conclusions are drawn regarding the phenomenology of these cases including how to distinguish between them.