Light Bottom Squark Phenomenology

Abstract

Agreement of theoretical calculations with the observed production rate of bottom quarks at hadron colliders is improved by the introduction of a contribution from pair-production of light gluinos, of mass 12 to 16 GeV, having two-body decays into bottom quarks and light bottom squarks with mass $\simeq 2$ to 5.5 GeV. Predictions are made for hadronic and radiative decays of the Upsilon states. In the limit of large $\tan \beta$, the dominant decay mode of the light scalar Higgs boson is into a pair of light bottom squarks that materialize as jets of hadrons.

3 pages, latex, no figures, uses espcrc2.sty style file. Paper to be published in the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP02), Amsterdam, July 24 - 31, 2002

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