We investigate in detail the consequences of the supersymmetry scenario with a light ( -5 GeV) gluino and heavy (-100 GeV) scalar quarks, including gluino distribution and fragmentation effects, proposed to explain large-missing-p, events observed at the CERN pp collider. The effective gluino distribution in the nucleon is evaluated using the Altarelli-Parisi equations. Ambiguities in evaluating scalar-quark production with the effective gluino distribution are discussed. A plausible gluino fragmentation function is deduced from heavy-quark fragmentation functions; scaling violations in the gluino fragmentation function are taken into account. Fragmentation effects drastically reduce the missing pr in light-gluino jets. The present collider data do not rule out a light gluino with mass in the range of 3-5 GeV even if the g lifetime, from decay into a photino and a quark pair, is short.
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