Signature Based Search For Delayed Photons In Exclusive Photon Plus Missing Transverse Energy Events From Pp Over Collisions With Sqrt S

Signature-based Search for Delayed Photons in Exclusive Photon Plus Missing Transverse Energy Events from Pp[over ̄] Collisions with Sqrt[s]

Search for New Physics in the Exclusive Delayed ?+E(t) Final State in Pp Collisions at {u221A}(S)

This dissertation presents a search for heavy, long-lived, neutral particles that decay to photons in proton anti-proton collisions with a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment. Such particles are typical of models of Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (GMSB). We select events with a single photon, missing transverse energy, and little other activity in the detector. We model the photon arrival time for Standard Model and non-collision sources using a data-driven method and consider photons which have a time of arrival at the detector which is significantly delayed relative to predictions. Using 6.3 fb-1 of data collected from December 2004 to June 2010, we observe 322 events in the signal region compared to a background prediction of 287 ± 24 events. While the data are consistently above predictions, we report a model excess with a significance of 1.2 standard deviations from the null hypothesis.

Search for New Physics in Lepton + Photon + X Events with 305 Pb**-1 of P Anti-p Collisions at S**ư

The authors present results of a search for anomalous production of events containing a charged lepton (l, either e or?) and a photon , both with high transverse momentum, accompanied by additional signatures, X, including missing transverse energy (E{sub T}) and additional leptons and photons. We use the same kinematic selection criteria as in a previous CDF search, but with a substantially larger data set, 305 pb−1, a p{bar p} collision energy of 1.96 TeV, and the upgraded CDF II detector. We find 42 l?E{sub T} events versus a standard model expectation of 37.3 ± 5.4 events. The level of excess observed in Run I, 16 events with an expectation of 7.6 ± 0.7 events (corresponding to a 2.7? effect), is not supported by the new data. In the signature of ll? + X we observe 31 events versus an expectation of 23.0 ± 2.7 events. In this sample we find no events with an extra photon or E{sub T} and so find no events like the one ee??E{sub T} event observed in Run I.