Searches for New Physics with the ALICE Experiment in pp Collisions

Abstract

The performance of the ALICE detector in searches for new heavy stable charged particles in pp collisions is discussed in this paper. Gluino R-hadron was chosen as an example of a candidate, and cross sections and kinematic properties were obtained from PYTHIA simulations for various gluino masses ($100-500 GeV/c^2$). Detector response simulations for R-hadrons in the TPC acceptance ($|\eta|<1$) were performed for $100 GeV/c^2$ R-hadron mass.