The status of GMSB after 1/fb at the LHC
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Kats, Yevgeny
Meade, Patrick
Reece, Matthew
Shih, David
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Kats, Yevgeny, Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece, and David Shih. 2012. “The Status of GMSB after 1/Fb at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2012 (2). https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2012)115.Abstract
We thoroughly investigate the current status of supersymmetry in light of the latest searches at the LHC, using General Gauge Mediation (GGM) as a well-motivated signature generator that leads to many different simplified models. We consider a l l possible promptly-decaying NLSPs in GGM, and by carefully reinterpreting the existing LHC searches, we derive limits on both colored and electroweak SUSY production. Overall, the coverage of GGM parameter space is quite good, but much discovery potential still remains even at 7TeV. We identify several regions of parameter space where the current searches are the weakest, typically in models with electroweak production, third generation sfermions or squeezed spectra, and we suggest how ATLAS and CMS might modify their search strategies given the understanding of GMSB at 1/fb. In particular, we propose the use of leptonic M-T2 to suppress t (t) over bar backgrounds. Because we express our results in terms of simplified models, they have broader applicability beyond the GGM framework, and give a global view of the current LHC reach. Our results on 3rd generation squark NLSPs in particular can be viewed as setting direct limits on naturalness.Terms of Use
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