Chapter 12: Scalar Quarks?

The 13 superjet events had only started to stir up trouble in CDF when Giromini came up with something even harder to deal with. There had, in truth, been warnings that their anomalous observation would be the beginning of a bigger story. A significant portion of Frascati's CDF note 4348, the main documentation of the superjet analysis, dealt with the description of a new physics mechanism which could be the source of the observed signature. The note also included some preliminary tests of how that hypothesis could fit the numerical excess of W+2 or 3 jet events as well as explain their kinematics. The Superjet godparent committee had been specifically asked to stay clear of that part of the documentation, at least in a first phase of the review, and only focus on ensuring the correctness of the analysis.