2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207543A long-standing discrepancy between the bottom-quark production cross section and predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics is addressed. We show that pair production of light gluinos, of mass 12 to 16 GeV, with two-body decays into bottom quarks and light bottom squarks, yields a bottom-quark production rate in agreement with hadron collider data. We examine constraints on this scenario from low-energy data and make predictions that may be tested at the next run of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider.Version in Phys. Rev. Lett., 4 pp., 1 ps fig., uses RevTeX, added why moderate gluino masses are not ruled out, updated referencesHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Experimenttext