Searches for Long-lived Particles at the Tevatron Collider

TL;DR

This paper reviews various searches for long-lived particles at the Tevatron collider, highlighting new analysis techniques and their potential to discover physics beyond traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces novel analysis methods for detecting long-lived particles and summarizes their application in multiple search channels at the Tevatron.

Findings

Development of new analysis techniques for long-lived particle searches

Expanded discovery potential of CDF and D0 experiments

Summary of experimental results and motivations for long-lived particle searches

Abstract

Several searches for long-lived particles have been performed using data from p-pbar collisions from Run II at the Tevatron. In most cases, new analysis techniques have been developed to carry out each search and/or estimate the backgrounds. These searches expand the discovery potential of the CDF and D0 experiments to new physics that may have been missed by traditional search techniques. This review discusses searches for (1) neutral, long-lived particles decaying to muons, (2) massive, neutral, long-lived particles decaying to a photon and missing energy, (3) stopped gluinos, and (4) charged massive stable particles. It summarizes some of the theoretical and experimental motivations for such searches.