Low-Energy Supersymmetry and the Tevatron Bottom-Quark Cross Section

7 May 2001

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 86 (19) , 4231-4234
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.4231

Abstract

A long-standing discrepancy between the bottom-quark production cross section and predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics is addressed. We show that pair production of light gluinos, of mass 12 to 16 GeV, with two-body decays into bottom quarks and light bottom squarks, yields a bottom-quark production rate in agreement with hadron collider data. We examine constraints on this scenario from low-energy data and make predictions that may be tested at the next run of the Fermilab Tevatron collider.

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