SUSY at the Pole

Abstract

We study the role neutrino telescopes could play in discovering supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model with a long-lived stau next-to-lightest superparticle. In such a setup, pairs of staus are produced by cosmic neutrino interactions in the Earth matter. In optimistic scenarios, one can expect several pair events per year in a cubic kilometer detector such as IceCube. We also show that no significant event rate can be expected for decays of staus stopped in the detector.