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New Physics Searches at the Tevatron

This presentation outlines the searches for new physics at the Tevatron, including upgrades to the CDF and D0 detectors, searches for new gauge bosons, technicolor, compositeness, and topcolor, and the search for long-lived heavy charged particles. Other areas of investigation include new physics with photons, large extra dimensions, and supersymmetry.

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New Physics Searches at the Tevatron

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  1. Searches at the Tevatron Bill Orejudos CDF Collaboration Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ICHEP 2002 July 24-31, 2002

  2. Outline • Tevatron, CDF, D0 upgrades • Searches • new gauge bosons • technicolor, compositeness, topcolor • long-lived heavy charged particles • new physics with photons • Large Extra Dimensions • Supersymmetry: see talk by V. Zutshi • Conclusion

  3. The Tevatron First phase of Run II (Run IIa) started spring 2001

  4. CDF Upgrade Time-of-Flight (TOF) added Upgrade will allow operation at high luminosity and extend physics capabilities Muon System upgraded New Electronics, Trigger, DAQ End Plug Calorimeters upgraded, extended to CTC replaced by COT New Forward Detectors SVX replaced layer of silicon added to beampipe Intermediate Silicon Layers (ISL) added Plug Shower Max added

  5. D0 Upgrade

  6. New CDF Run I analysis looks for Remove dilepton events Require lepton to be central and isolated Require at least one jet to be tagged as a b-jet

  7. Excluded:

  8. Events from jet triggers selected Jet ET > (115,85,50,30) GeV Excluded: Dijet mass distribution shows no evidence of an excess

  9. Drell-Yan Production Dilepton final state can be used in searches for: - large extra dimensions - quark-lepton compositeness - technicolor This would be modified by the presence of some sort of new physics – could exchange a new gauge boson, Kaluza-Klein (KK) tower, etc Could also have new diagrams leading to dilepton final states, e.g. 2 gluons coupling to KK tower.

  10. Selection of Dilepton Events CDF Run I Dilepton mass distribution • Events selected with • Leptons required to: • Be oppositely charged • Have a high transverse momentum • Be isolated • Originate from single vertex Background low at high lepton inv. mass: 110 pb-1 No deviation from SM

  11. Results and Run II Reach

  12. Z peaks, Run II data Dimuon Mass Analyses to look for an excess in the high mass region in progress by both CDF and D0

  13. Drell-Yan searches can also be used to look for evidence of technicolorand quark-lepton compositeness. D0 Run I limits: (other decays suppressed) Quark compositeness searched for in dijets. D0 Run I limits: compositeness scale

  14. Technicolor searched for in other channels. CDF limits: Missing ET > 20 GeV 2 jets, ET > 15 GeV, one b-tagged 160-240 GeV/c2 at Run IIa 2 jets, ET > 20 GeV, one b-tagged 2,3 jets with ET>15 GeV, one b-tagged No other jets with ET>7 GeV, no leptons Missing ET > 40 GeV 850 GeV/c2 at Run IIa

  15. Topcolor 106 pb-1 • Missing ET>20 GeV • 4 jets, ET>15 GeV • 4th jet: ET>8 GeV if one other jet b-tagged

  16. CHAMPS Charged Massive Particles, long-lived enough to leave detector • CDF Run I analysis: • High pT trk w/ large dE/dx • Use high pT muon trigger • Heavy, slow moving particle • Large time-of-flight (TOF) • Large dE/dx CHAMPS CHAMPS

  17. CHAMPS at Run II Sensitive region of momentum Spectrum for 100 GeV stau using dE/dx Stable stau pair production

  18. CDF Run II CHAMP Analysis Track must have large pT, be isolated, have large TOF Number predicted, observed in Control2 • Signal Sample: pT> 40 GeV/c • Control Sample: pT>20,<40 GeV/c • Control1: pT>20, <30 GeV/c • Control2: pT>30, <40 GeV/c Value of TOFdiff cut Expected Background:

  19. Photon Physics at Run II Searches for new physics are in progress…

  20. New Physics with Photons CDF has searched for new physics in the Run I diphoton sample: • Photons isolated • Bckgnd: Jets faking photons No excess in diphoton sample. Search for bosophilic higgs Selecting W/Z: No excess in Diphoton-W/Z sample OR OR

  21. Inclusive Photon+Lepton Search CDF has performed a model independent search at Run I for new physics that gives leptons, photons, missing ET in final state Main Backgrounds:

  22. Large Extra Dimensions D0 has searched for LED in diphoton/dielectron sample • 2 EM objects • ET> 45 GeV for each • Missing ET<25 GeV 1282 events in sample Bckgnd: Drell-Yan, Invariant mass, angular dist. of EM objects considered MS > 1.1 (1.0) TeV/c2 for const. (dest.) interference between Kaluza-Klein and SM contributions No deviation from SM, Limit on eff. string scale MS

  23. Graviton emission:

  24. D0 search with jets and missing ET LED search, GKKg final state ET (jet1) > 150 GeV ET (jet2) < 50 GeV Missing ET > 150 GeV Missing ET, jet2 > 15o apart No isolated muons

  25. Limits from Run II • D0 leptoquark search • 2 EM clusters w/ ET> 25 GeV • >1 jet w/ ET>20 GeV • Z veto D0 has repeated LED search in diphoton/dielectron final state • 2 EM objects • ET> 25 GeV for each • Missing ET<30 GeV Main bckgnd: Drell-Yan, fakes No deviation from SM MS > 0.82 TeV/c2 for const. interference between Kaluza-Klein and SM contributions No excess above SM MLQ > 113 GeV/c2 Still need more data to improve on Run I results

  26. Conclusion • D0 and CDF have searched for new physics with many different signatures • Dileptons • Dijets • Diphotons • Jets with a heavy flavor tag • Jets and missing ET • Photon and missing ET • Inclusive photons+leptons • Large dE/dx and large time-of-flight • Many different models have been explored • No evidence yet for new physics • Run II has started, searches are in progress!

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