Abstract
We apply a quasi-model-independent strategy (“SLEUTH”) to search for new high physics in ≈100 of collisions at collected by the DØ experiment during 1992–1996 at the Fermilab Tevatron. Over 32 and exclusive final states are systematically analyzed for hints of physics beyond the standard model. Simultaneous sensitivity to a variety of models predicting new phenomena at the electroweak scale is demonstrated by testing the method on a particular signature in each set of final states. No evidence of new high physics is observed in the course of this search, and we find that 89% of an ensemble of hypothetical similar experimental runs would have produced a final state with a candidate signal more interesting than the most interesting observed in these data.
- Received 21 November 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.012004
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