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\section{Introduction}\label{sect:introduction}  With the discovery of the Higgs, the Standard Model seems to offer a complete tally of the fundamental particles with which all of the matter around us is made \cite\cite{Aad_2012}{Aad_2012}. \cite{Aad_2012}.  However, with this answer comes more questions as phenomena such as the origin of dark matter remain unanswered, leading theorist to look for physics “beyond the Standard Model”.   Supersymmetry is such a theory that proposes an extension to spacetime which allows for a symmetry relating the two groups of fundamental particles: fermions and bosons. Associated with this extension is a quantum number $R_p$ defined as