Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle interactions is one of the major achievements of fundamental science. However, despite its success in predicting experimental results through the years, several fundamental issues are left open such as: the origin of dark matter in the universe, the existence of a unifying theory of all known forces and interactions, why particles have the masses we observe and the hierarchy problem. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the possible extensions of the SM. It proposes an additional symmetry that predicts the existence of an additional boson (fermion) for each SM fermion (boson). The appeal of SUSY is closely related to the fact that it naturally solves several of the open questions of the SM. Thus it is extensively tested in an experiment as CDF where many of its signatures can be searched for. On the other hand there is still no compelling reason to exclude other scenarios like Extra-dimensions and New Gauge Interaction Models, a priori. The CDF program in physics beyond the SM is quite rich and here we present some representative searches subdivided in two main categories: SUSY and non-SUSY searches. We present the current status of searches for physics beyond the Standard Modelmore » at the Tevatron 1.96-TeV proton-antiproton collider using data collected with the CDF experiment. We cover searches for supersymmetry, extra dimensions and new gauge bosons.« less
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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