We describe the online event monitoring systems using ROOT [1] for the CDF and D0 collaborations in the upcoming Fermilab Tevatron runII. The CDF and D0 experiments consist of many detector subsystems and will run in a high rate large bandwidth data transfer environment. In the experiments, it is crucial to monitor the performance of each subsystem and the integrity of the data, in real time with minimal interruption. ROOT is used as the main analysis tool for the monitoring systems and its GUI is used to browse the results via socket, allowing multiple GUI client connections.

The Fermilab accelerator complex has been operating Run II for approximately one year. In this mode 36 proton bunches collide with 36 antiproton bunches at 2 interaction regions in the Tevatron at 980 GeV beam energy. The long range goal in Run II is to obtain a total integrated luminosity of 15 pb−1. The current status and performance of the accelerator complex is described, including the Tevatron, Main Injector, Antiproton Source, and Recycler Ring. Future upgrade plans and prospects for reaching the admittedly ambitious long range goal are presented.

Compelling arguments suggest the presence of new physics at the electroweak scale, an energy regime accessible to the Fermilab Tevatron. Unfortunately, predictions for the form that new physics will take are all over the map. A quasi-model-independent search strategy for new physics (SLEUTH) was introduced in Tevatron Run I to allow a probe of high-pT hadron collider data. This dissertation prescribes the SLEUTH algorithm that will be used in Tevatron Run II. Improvements over the Run I algorithm are discussed, and an intuition is developed for SLEUTH'S performance by considering a number of beyond-the-standard-model examples. This dissertation defines a priori the SLEUTH algorithm, before its application to Tevatron Run II data, allowing an unbiased and rigorous a posteriori measure of the "interestingness" of any observed signal. This algorithm will also be used with small modifications at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In addition, a new detector simulation, TurboSim, was tested for physics analysis use for the first time.

The Fermilab Tevatron collider experiments CDF and D0 collected more than 100 pb−1 of data at (square root)(s) = 1.8 TeV during Run I (1992-1995). Results of searches for new phenomena (exotics) are presented, covering supersymmetry, leptoquarks, technicolor, and quark compositeness. In each case, no discrepancy with the Standard Model is observed, and stringent limits on new physics predicted by these models are extracted. Parameters for Run II of the Tevatron are given along with projections of search reaches for this upcoming run.

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