Probing Light Sbottoms with B Decays

Abstract

We discuss recently reported experimental hints for a bottom squark with mass around 3.5 GeV decaying as sbottom -> charm + lepton + anti-sneutrino. We correlate the sbottom lifetime with the decay rates for bottom -> sbottom + neutrino + anti-sneutrino and bottom -> sbottom + anti-neutrino + sneutrino in the framework of a minimal supersymmetric model extended by right-handed (s)neutrinos. Confronting our results with the well-measured semileptonic branching ratio of B mesons we conclude that the light sbottom interpretation of the experimental anomalies is ruled out, unless m_bottom < m_sbottom + m_sneutrino.

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures