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How to Search for a Light Stop at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We describe a method for searching for a light stop squark [M(stop)+M(LSP)<M(t)] at the Fermilab Tevatron. Traditional searches rely upon stringent background-reducing cuts which, unfortunately, leave very few signal events given the present data set. To avoid this difficulty, we suggest using a milder set of cuts, combined with a ``superweight,'' whose purpose is to discriminate between signal and background. The superweight consists of a sum of terms (each of which are either zero or one) assigned event-by-event depending upon the values of various observables. By construction, the superweight ``large'' for the signal and ``small'' for the background. We apply this method to the detection of stops coming from top decay. It is straightforward to adapt our method to other processes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609508,
  title  = {How to Search for a Light Stop at the Tevatron},
  author = {Gregory Mahlon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609508},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure, latex, uses sprocl.sty and psfig.tex. Talk given at DPF96, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 11-15, 1996

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