Search For The Production Of Scalar Bottom Quarks In P Bar P Collisions At Sqrt S

Search for the Production of Scalar Bottom Quarks in $p \bar {p} $ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} $

We report on a search for direct scalar bottom quark (sbottom) pair production in p{bar p} collisions at (square root)s = 1.96 TeV, in events with large missing transverse energy and two jets of hadrons in the final state, where at least one of the jets is required to be identified as originating from a b quark. The study uses a CDF Run II data sample corresponding to 2.65 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The data are in agreement with the standard model. In an R-parity conserving minimal supersymmetric scenario, and assuming that the sbottom decays exclusively into a bottom quark and a neutralino, 95% confidence-level upper limits on the sbottom pair production cross section of 0.1 pb are obtained. For neutralino masses below 70 GeV/c2, sbottom masses up to 230 GeV/c2 are excluded at 95% confidence level.

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Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks and Third-generation Leptoquarks in P P-bar Collisions at Sqrt(s)

We report the results of a search for pair production of scalar bottom quarks ({tilde b}1) and scalar third-generation leptoquarks (LQ3) in 5.2 fb−1 of p{bar p} collisions at the D0 experiment of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Scalar bottom quarks are assumed to decay to a neutralino ({tilde {chi}}1°) and a b quark, and we set 95% C.L. lower limits on their production in the (m{sub {tilde b}1}, m{sub {tilde {chi}}1°}) mass plane such as m{sub {tilde b}1}> 247 GeV for m{sub {tilde {chi}}1°} = 0 and m{sub {tilde {chi}}1°}> 110 GeV for 160