A supersymmetric solution to the bottom-quark cross section anomaly
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
In this talk, I describe a supersymmetric solution to the long-standing discrepancy between the bottom-quark production cross section and predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Pair production of light gluinos, of mass 12-16 GeV, with two-body decays into bottom quarks and bottom squarks, of mass 2-5.5 GeV, yields the correct normalizations and shapes of the measured bottom-quark distributions. One prediction of this scenario is that like-sign B mesons, B+B+ and B-B-, should be produced with a measurable rate at the next run of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105164,
title = {A supersymmetric solution to the bottom-quark cross section anomaly},
author = {Z. Sullivan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105164},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Proceedings of XXXVI Rencontres de Moriond: QCD, March 17-24, 2001; 4 pgs., 3 ps figures