Searching for directly decaying gluinos at the Tevatron

This Letter describes how to perform searches over the complete kinematically-allowed parameter space for new pair-produced color octet particles that each subsequently decay into two jets plus missing energy at the Tevatron. This Letter shows that current searches can miss otherwise discoverable spectra of particles due to CMSSM-motivated cuts. Optimizing the HT and 6 cuts expands the sensitivity of these searches. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.