2001/05/16 by Z. Sullivan, Zack Sullivan, Sullivan, Z.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0105164
Proceedings of XXXVI Rencontres de Moriond: QCD, March 17-24, 2001; 4 pgs., 3 ps figures
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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.