  This dissertation addresses the question of how to detect light top squarks
at the upgraded Fermilab Tevatron collider. After a brief introduction to
supersymmetry, the basic phenomenology of the light stop is reviewed and the
current experimental situation is surveyed. The analysis presented here is
based on collider event simulations. The main decay modes accessible to the
Tevatron are studied, feasible discovery channels are identified, and recipes
for experimental analysis are proposed. It is found that stops with masses up
to the top quark mass are liable to detection under these schemes with the data
from a few years' running at the upgraded Tevatron. With such an extended run,
significant portions of parameter space may be probed.
