Tevatron Potential for Technicolor Search with Prompt Photons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential for detecting technicolor particles at the Tevatron collider by analyzing the production and decay of a specific color octet isoscalar, providing simulation-based limits on its mass.

Contribution

It offers a detailed simulation study of $ ext{eta}_T$ production and decay, establishing optimal detection strategies and exclusion/discovery limits for technicolor models at the Tevatron.

Findings

Determined optimal kinematic cuts for signal detection.

Established exclusion limits on $ ext{eta}_T$ mass.

Projected discovery potential for technicolor particles.

Abstract

We perform a detailed study of the process of single color octet isoscalar $\eta_T$ production at the Tevatron with $\eta_T \to \gamma + g$ decay signature, including a complete simulation of signal and background processes. We determined a set of optimal cuts from an analysis of the various kinematical distributions for the signal and backgrounds. As a result we show the exclusion and discovery limits on the $\eta_T$ mass which could be established at the Tevatron for some technicolor models.