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Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1178–1181 (2000)

Mesino-Antimesino Oscillations

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Uri Sarid1 and Scott Thomas2
1Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
2Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Received 13 September 1999; published in the issue dated 7 August 2000

The phenomenology of supersymmetric theories with low scale supersymmetry breaking and a squark as the lightest standard model superpartner are investigated. Such squarks hadronize with light quarks, forming sbaryons and mesinos before decaying. Production of these supersymmetric bound states at a high energy collider can lead to displaced jets with large negative impact parameters. Neutral mesino-antimesino oscillations are not forbidden by any symmetry and can occur at observable rates. Stop mesino-antimesino oscillations would give a sensitive probe of up-type sflavor violation, and can provide a discovery channel for supersymmetry through events with a same-sign top-top topology.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1178
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1178
PACS:
12.60.Jv, 14.40.Gx, 14.80.Ly