Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-12-28
Phys.Rev.Lett.96:171802,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.171802
We searched for scalar bottom quarks in 156 pb$^{-1}$ of {\bf $\bar{p}p$} collisions at {\bf $\sqrt{s}=1.96$} TeV recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Tevatron. Scalar bottom quarks can be produced from gluino decays in R-parity conserving models of supersymmetry when the mass of the gluino exceeds that of the scalar bottom quark. Then, a scalar bottom quark can decay into a bottom quark and a neutralino. To search for this scenario, we investigated events with large missing transverse energy and at least three jets, two or more of which were identified as containing a secondary vertex from the hadronization of $b$ quarks. We found four candidate events, where $2.6\pm 0.7$ are expected from standard model processes, and placed 95% confidence level lower limits on gluino and scalar bottom quark masses of up to 280 and $240\gevm$, respectively.
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