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In particle physics, a stop squark, symbol

, is the superpartner of the top quark as predicted by supersymmetry (SUSY). It is a sfermion, which means it is a spin-0 boson (scalar boson). While the top quark is the heaviest known quark, the stop squark is actually often the lightest squark in many supersymmetry models.

Overview

The stop squark is a key ingredient of a wide range of SUSY models that address the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model (SM) in a natural way. A boson partner to the top quark would stabilize the Higgs boson mass against quadratically divergent quantum corrections, provided its mass is close to the electroweak symmetry breaking energy scale. If this was the case then the stop squark would be accessible at the Large Hadron Collider. In the generic R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) the scalar partners of right-handed and left-handed top quarks mix to form two stop mass eigenstates. Depending on the specific details of the SUSY model and the mass hierarchy of the sparticles, the stop might decay into a bottom quark and a chargino, with a subsequent decay of the chargino into the lightest neutralino (which is often the lightest supersymmetric particle).

Evidence

Many searches for evidence of the stop squark have been performed by both the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC but so far no signal has been discovered. In January 2019, the CMS Collaboration published findings excluding stop squarks with masses as large as 1230 GeV at 95% (2σ) confidence level.

References

  1. Search For Pair Production of Stop Quarks Mimicking Top Event Signatures
  2. "ATLAS Supersymmetry Public Results". ATLAS, CERN. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  3. "CMS Supersymmetry Public Results". CMS, CERN. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  4. Sirunyan, A. M.; et al. (20 January 2019). "Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, jets, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV". European Physical Journal C. 79 (5): 444. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6926-x. PMC 6537472. PMID 31265003. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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