Low Energy Supersymmetry and the Tevatron Bottom-Quark Cross Section

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  • 1 December 2000
Abstract
A longstanding 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 Tevatron Collider.

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