Phys. Rev. D
63,
051101(R)
(2001)
[5 pages]
Search for a scalar bottom quark with mass 3.5–4.5 GeV/c2
V. Savinov et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
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V. Savinov1, T. E. Coan2, V. Fadeyev2, Y. S. Gao2, Y. Maravin2, I. Narsky2, R. Stroynowski2, J. Ye2, T. Wlodek2, M. Artuso3, R. Ayad3, C. Boulahouache3, K. Bukin3, E. Dambasuren3, S. Karamov3, G. Majumder3, G. C. Moneti3, R. Mountain3, S. Schuh3, T. Skwarnicki3, S. Stone3, J. C. Wang3, A. Wolf3, J. Wu3, S. Kopp4, M. Kostin4, A. H. Mahmood5, S. E. Csorna6, I. Danko6, K. W. McLean6, Z. Xu6, R. Godang7, G. Bonvicini8, D. Cinabro8, M. Dubrovin8, S. McGee8, G. J. Zhou8, E. Lipeles9, S. P. Pappas9, M. Schmidtler9, A. Shapiro9, W. M. Sun9, A. J. Weinstein9, F. Würthwein9,*, D. E. Jaffe10, G. Masek10, H. P. Paar10, E. M. Potter10, S. Prell10, D. M. Asner11, A. Eppich11, T. S. Hill11, R. J. Morrison11, R. A. Briere12, G. P. Chen12, A. Gritsan13, J. P. Alexander14, R. Baker14, C. Bebek14, B. E. Berger14, K. Berkelman14, F. Blanc14, V. Boisvert14, D. G. Cassel14, P. S. Drell14, J. E. Duboscq14, K. M. Ecklund14, R. Ehrlich14, A. D. Foland14, P. Gaidarev14, R. S. Galik14, L. Gibbons14, B. Gittelman14, S. W. Gray14, D. L. Hartill14, B. K. Heltsley14, P. I. Hopman14, L. Hsu14, C. D. Jones14, J. Kandaswamy14, D. L. Kreinick14, M. Lohner14, A. Magerkurth14, T. O. Meyer14, N. B. Mistry14, E. Nordberg14, M. Palmer14, J. R. Patterson14, D. Peterson14, D. Riley14, A. Romano14, J. G. Thayer14, D. Urner14, B. Valant-Spaight14, G. Viehhauser14, A. Warburton14, P. Avery15, C. Prescott15, A. I. Rubiera15, H. Stoeck15, J. Yelton15, G. Brandenburg16, A. Ershov16, D. Y.-J. Kim16, R. Wilson16, T. Bergfeld17, B. I. Eisenstein17, J. Ernst17, G. E. Gladding17, G. D. Gollin17, R. M. Hans17, E. Johnson17, I. Karliner17, M. A. Marsh17, C. Plager17, C. Sedlack17, M. Selen17, J. J. Thaler17, J. Williams17, K. W. Edwards18, R. Janicek19, P. M. Patel19, A. J. Sadoff20, R. Ammar21, A. Bean21, D. Besson21, X. Zhao21, S. Anderson22, V. V. Frolov22, Y. Kubota22, S. J. Lee22, R. Mahapatra22, J. J. O’Neill22, R. Poling22, T. Riehle22, A. Smith22, C. J. Stepaniak22, J. Urheim22, S. Ahmed23, M. S. Alam23, S. B. Athar23, L. Jian23, L. Ling23, M. Saleem23, S. Timm23, F. Wappler23, A. Anastassov24, E. Eckhart24, K. K. Gan24, C. Gwon24, T. Hart24, K. Honscheid24, D. Hufnagel24, R. Kass24, T. K. Pedlar24, H. Schwarthoff24, J. B. Thayer24, E. von Toerne24, M. M. Zoeller24, S. J. Richichi25, H. Severini25, P. Skubic25, A. Undrus25, S. Chen26, J. Fast26, J. W. Hinson26, J. Lee26, D. H. Miller26, E. I. Shibata26, I. P. J. Shipsey26, V. Pavlunin26, D. Cronin-Hennessy27, A. L. Lyon27, and E. H. Thorndike27 (CLEO Collaboration)
1Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309
2Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275
3Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244
4University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
5University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, Texas 78539
6Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
7Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
8Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
9California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
10University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
11University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106
12Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
13University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390
14Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
15University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
16Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
17University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801
18Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 and the Institute of Particle Physics, Canada
19McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8 and the Institute of Particle Physics, Canada
20Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 14850
21University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
22University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
23State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222
24Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
25University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
26Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
27University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
Received 17 October 2000; published 31 January 2001
We report on a search for a supersymmetric B̃ meson with mass between 3.5 and 4.5GeV/c2 using 4.52fb-1 of integrated luminosity produced at √s=10.52GeV, just below the e+e-→BB̅ threshold, and collected with the CLEO detector. We find no evidence for a light scalar bottom quark.
© 2001 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.051101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.051101
PACS:
12.60.Jv, 13.85.Rm, 14.80.Ly
*Permanent address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
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