Cosmo-Particle Searches for Supersymmetry at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

TL;DR

This paper reviews the motivation and implementation of comprehensive supersymmetry searches at Fermilab's CDF, utilizing early Tevatron data to explore cosmology-inspired theories in particle physics.

Contribution

It provides a systematic overview of supersymmetry search strategies motivated by cosmology and reports initial experimental results from the CDF detector.

Findings

Initial search results set new limits on supersymmetric particles.

Demonstrated feasibility of broad cosmology-inspired search strategies.

Highlighted the importance of collider experiments in testing supersymmetry theories.

Abstract

Some theories of particle physics are so compelling that it is worth doing a comprehensive and systematic set of experimental searches to see if they are realized in nature. Supersymmetry is one such theory. This review focuses on the motivation for a broad set of cosmology-inspired search strategies at the Tevatron and on their implementation and results at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) with the first few fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity of data.