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Can supersymmetry particles fake the top-quark signal

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)
It has been suggested that qq production followed by decays q..-->..qomega-tilde (with omega-tilde..-->..enu-tilde,e..nu..) and q..-->..qgamma-tilde might fake the top-quark signal in e+2-jet events from W..-->..tb-bar production (with t..-->..e..nu..b) at the CERN pp-bar collider. We exclude this supersymmetry possibility; it does not reproduce the full set of narrow peaked distributions characteristic of the W..-->..tb-bar signal. The UA1 data favor the W..-->..tb-bar interpretation over this supersymmetry mechanism.
Research Organization:
Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
OSTI ID:
5737206
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 32:1; ISSN PRVDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English