Supersymmetry Searches at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status of supersymmetry searches at the LHC, highlighting experimental efforts, data analysis techniques, and various potential signatures beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of supersymmetry search strategies and results from ATLAS and CMS, including novel signatures like non-pointing photons and long-lived particles.

Findings

Analysis of early LHC data with background estimation techniques

Searches for diverse SUSY signatures including long-lived particles

No confirmed SUSY signals observed so far

Abstract

The search for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics is one of the major tasks of the LHC, CERN. In these proceedings, I review the status of searches for Supersymmetry by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. The efforts in both the hadronic and leptonic search channels are presented. A special focus is placed on the treatment of approximately one inverse femtobarn of early LHC data, and examples of background estimation techniques in such a dataset are given. Phenomenologically, besides "typical" mSUGRA scenarios, signatures based on prompt and non-pointing photons, as well as long-lived leptons and hadrons (R-hadrons) are covered.