Phenomenological study of the atypical heavy flavor production observed at the Fermilab Tevatron

Apollinari, G.; Barone, M.; Fiori, I.; Giromini, P.; Happacher, F.; Miscetti, S.; Parri, A.; Ptohos, F.

Phenomenological study of the atypical heavy flavor production observed at the Fermilab Tevatron

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We address known discrepancies between the heavy flavor properties of jets produced at the Tevatron collider and the prediction of conventional-QCD simulations. In this study, we entertain the possibility that these effects are real and due to new physics. We show that all anomalies can be simultaneously fitted by postulating the additional pair production of light bottom squarks with a 100% semileptonic branching fraction.
30 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D