| A data sample of 84.37 pb–1 of pp¯ collisions at s = 1.8 TeV recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab is analyzed in search of scalar quarks (squarks, q˜) and gluinos (g˜). The final state of large missing energy plus ≥3 jets, characteristic of hadroproduction and subsequent decays of squarks and gluinos within the minimal supersymmetry and supergravity frameworks with R-parity conservation, is used in the search. The blind analysis method is followed to avoid biases in the data selection. The search is negative at 95% C.L. for gluino masses below 300 GeV/c 2 for the case mq˜ ≈ mg˜ and 195 GeV/c 2 independent of the squark mass. Being that the limit on the gluino mass provides tight fine-tuning constraints on low-energy supersymmetry the result of this search has phenomenological implications on models with unification constraints. It also demonstrates that the missing energy plus multijet channel is a powerful probe for supersymmetry in the upcoming Tevatron Collider run. |
