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We investigate the phenomenological viability of a very light bottom squark, with a mass less than half of the Z boson mass. The decays of the Z and Higgs bosons to light sbottom pairs are, in a fairly model independent manner, strongly constrained by the precision electroweak data and Higgs signal strength measurements, respectively. These constraints are complementary to direct collider searches, which depend in detail on assumptions regarding the superpartner spectrum and decays of the sbottom. In particular, if the lightest sbottom has a mass below about 15 GeV, compatibility with these measurements is possible only in a special region of parameter space in which the couplings of the lightest sbottom to the Z and Higgs are suppressed. In this region, the second sbottom is predicted to be lighter than about 300 GeV and can also be searched for directly at the LHC. We also survey relevant collider searches for canonical scenarios with a bino, gravitino, or singlino LSP in the compressed and stealth kinematic regimes and provide suggestions to cover remaining open regions of parameter space.
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Batell, B., Wagner, C.E.M. & Wang, LT. Constraints on a very light sbottom. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 2 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)002
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