Khotilovich, Vadim Gennadyevich (2009-05). Search for pair production of scalar top quarks decaying to a tau lepton and a b quark in 1.96-tev ppbar collisions. Doctoral Dissertation. Thesis uri icon

abstract

  • I present the results of a search for pair production of scalar top quarks (~t1) in an R-parity violating supersymmetric scenario using 322 pb_1 of pp collisions at ps = 1.96 TeV collected by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab. I assume each ~t1 decays into a tau lepton and a b quark, with branching ratio B, and search for final states containing either an electron or a muon from a leptonic tau decay, a hadronically decaying tau lepton, and two or more jets. Two candidate events pass my final selection criteria, consistent with the expectation from standard model processes. I present upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio squared (~t1~t1)B2 as a function of the stop mass m(~t1). Assuming B = 1, I set a 95% confidence level limit m(~t1) > 153 GeV=c2. These limits are also fully applicable to the case of a pair produced third generation scalar leptoquark that decays into a tau lepton and a b quark.

publication date

  • May 2009