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A search for pair produced scalar fermions with couplings that violate R-parity has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 56 pb\(^{-1}\) at a centre-of-mass energy of \(\sqrt{s}=\) 183 GeV collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. An important consequence of R-parity breaking interactions is that the lightest supersymmetric particle is expected to be unstable. Searches for R-parity violating decays of charged sleptons, sneutrinos and stop quarks have been performed under the assumptions that the lightest supersymmetric particle decays promptly and that only one of the R-parity violating couplings is dominant for each of the decay modes considered. Such processes would yield multi-leptons, jets plus leptons or multi-jets, with or without missing energy, in the final state. No significant excess of such events has been observed. Limits on the production cross-sections of scalar fermions in R-parity violating scenarios are obtained. Mass exclusion regions are also presented in the framework of the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
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Received: 16 March 1999 / Published online: 14 October 1999
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The OPAL Collaboration., Abbiendi et al., G. Search for R-parity violating decays of scalar fermions at LEP. Eur. Phys. J. C 12, 1–24 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900226
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900226