  A broad class of scenarios for new physics involving additional
strongly-interacting fields generically predicts signatures at hadron colliders
which consist solely of large numbers of jets and substantial missing
transverse energy. In this work, we investigate the prospects for discovery in
such scenarios using a search strategy in which jet multiplicity and missing
transverse energy are employed as the primary criteria for distinguishing
signal from background. We examine the discovery reach this strategy affords in
an example theory (a simplified supersymmetric model whose low-energy spectrum
consists of a gluino, a light stop, and a light neutralino) and demonstrate
that it frequently exceeds the reach obtained via other, alternative
strategies.
