Challenging weak-scale supersymmetry at colliders

Abstract

Experimental searches for supersymmetry are entering a new era. As future experiments explore the mass range above the current lower bounds on superpartner masses, a failure to observe signals of superpartner production will begin to erode the central motivation for supersymmetry at the weak scale. In this article we present a detailed examination of which regions of supersymmetric parameter space are most natural and the extent to which weak-scale supersymmetry becomes unnatural if no superpartners are observed at LEP-II, the Tevatron, possible upgrades of these machines, and the LHC.

14 pages, LaTex, 10 figures, uuencoded, gz-compressed file. Minor revisions bring archived manuscript in line with version to be published

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