Searches for New Physics at CDF

TL;DR

This paper reports on multiple searches for new physics beyond the standard model using 2 fb^-1 of Tevatron data, focusing on final states with missing energy and photons, but finds no significant deviations from the standard model predictions.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive set of model-independent searches for new physics at CDF without heavy optimization for specific theories.

Findings

No significant excesses observed in most final states.

Results set constraints on new physics models.

One final state shows a potential anomaly, warranting further investigation.

Abstract

In this note we present the results of several searches for physics beyond the standard model. All final states use 2 inverse fb\of data produced at Tevatron in p-pbar collisions at 1.96 TeV and collected by the CDF Run II detector. None of the analysis is heavily optimized for any specific model. All signatures contain missing transverse energy in the final state and all, except for one, have at least one photon in the final state. Unfortunately, no interesting excesses of events over the SM prediction are observed in any final states, except may be for the last one.