Signals for heavy exotics at hadron colliders and supercolliders

We study the signals for the production of heavy long-lived charged particles at present and future hadron colliders. The most important signature for these is their large penetration and velocities β significantly smaller than 1, but we also comment on purely calorimetric signatures. We point out that the CDF Collaboration should already be able to derive significant constraints on the production of scalar or fermionic long-lived colour-triplet particles, from its present data sample, which has an integrated luminosity of 5 pb−.

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