Search for Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8 TeV

Authors

• Darin Acosta, University of FloridaFollow
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-4-2003

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131801 (2003). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2003 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report a search for the production of long-lived charged massive particles in a data sample of 90 pb^-1 of √s=1.8 TeV pp̅ collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The search uses the muonlike penetration and anomalously high ionization energy loss signature expected for such a particle to discriminate it from backgrounds. The data are found to agree with background expectations, and cross section limits of ∂ (1) pb are derived using two reference models, a stable quark and a stable scalar lepton.