SUSY Production Cross Sections

We summarize the status of next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations of the cross sections for the production of squarks, gluinos, neutralinos, charginos, and sleptons as a function of the produced sparticle masses in proton-antiproton collisions at the hadronic center-of-mass energy 2 TeV. I. PERTURBATIVE QCD RESULTS The possibility of supersymmetry (SUSY) at the electroweak scale and the ongoing search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson constitute two major related aspects of the motivation for the Tevatron upgrade currently under construction at Fermilab. The increase in the center-of-mass energy to 2 TeV and the luminosity to an expected 2 fb, together with detector improvements, should permit discovery or exclusion of supersymmetric partners of the standard model particles up to much higher masses than at present [1]. Estimates of the production cross sections for pairs of supersymmetric particles may