Searches for Scalar Top and Bottom Quarks at the Tevatron

Abstract

Searches for the supersymmetric partners of top and bottom quarks using data up to 340 pb$^{-1}$ taken at the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider are described. We report on searches for scalar top quarks $\tilde{t}$ in the decays $\tilde{t}\to c \tilde{\chi}_1^0$ and $\tilde{t}\to bl\tilde{\nu}$ and for scalar bottom quarks $\tilde{b}$ in the decay $\tilde{b}\to b \tilde{\chi}_1^0$. No evidence for a signal has been found, but improved exclusion regions have been derived in the framework of a generic minimal superymmetric extension of the standard model.