Prospects for Discovering Supersymmetry at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the promising potential for discovering supersymmetry at the LHC, highlighting the role of recent measurements and likelihood analyses that suggest early detection is feasible with minimal data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis combining electroweak and B-decay observables to evaluate LHC discovery prospects for supersymmetry.

Findings

LHC could discover supersymmetry with 1/fb of data

Light sparticles are favored by current anomalies

Multiple detection channels are promising

Abstract

Supersymmetry is one of the best-motivated candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model that might be discovered at the LHC. There are many reasons to expect that it may appear at the TeV scale, in particular because it provides a natural cold dark matter candidate. The apparent discrepancy between the experimental measurement of g_mu - 2 and the Standard model value calculated using low-energy e+ e- data favours relatively light sparticles accessible to the LHC. A global likelihood analysis including this, other electroweak precision observables and B-decay observables suggests that the LHC might be able to discover supersymmetry with 1/fb or less of integrated luminosity. The LHC should be able to discover supersymmetry via the classic missing-energy signature, or in alternative phenomenological scenarios. The prospects for discovering supersymmetry at the LHC look very good.