Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2222 - 2227 (1996)

Search for Light Top Squarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s  =  1.8 TeV

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S. Abachi et al. (D0 Collaboration)
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Received 30 November 1995

We present a search for pair produced top squarks, the supersymmetric partners of the top quark, using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ collider. We consider a scenario in which the lighter of the two top squarks t̃1 decays with 100% branching fraction to a charm quark and the lightest neutralino χ̃10 yielding a signal of two acollinear jets with missing transverse energy. We observe 3 events while we expect 3.5±1.2 events from the known standard model processes. We exclude at the 95% confidence level a significant region of the mt̃1- mχ̃10 parameter space. The highest mt̃1 value we exclude is 93 GeV/c2 with a corresponding mχ̃10 value of 8 GeV/c2.


©1996 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2222
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2222
PACS: 14.80.Ly, 13.85.Rm

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