Searches for New Physics at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews various experimental searches at the Fermilab Tevatron for phenomena beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, leptoquarks, heavy gauge bosons, and deviations in particle distributions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of experimental efforts and results in searching for new physics phenomena at the Tevatron collider.

Findings

No definitive evidence for new physics was observed.

Constraints placed on supersymmetric particles and other exotic states.

Limits established on deviations from Standard Model predictions.

Abstract

This paper summarizes searches at the Fermilab Tevatron for a wide variety of signatures for physics beyond the Standard Model. These include searches for supersymmetric particles, in the two collider detectors and in one fixed target experiment. Also covered are searches for leptoquarks, dijet resonances, heavy gauge bosons, and particles from a fourth generation, as well as searches for deviations from the Standard Model predictions in dijet angular distributions, dilepton mass distributions, and trilinear gauge boson couplings.