Prospects for R-Parity Conserving SUSY searches at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews current LHC search strategies for R-parity conserving SUSY models, focusing on missing energy signatures, gauge-mediated models, and decay reconstruction techniques, highlighting the potential for early discovery.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of search methods and recent techniques for reconstructing SUSY particle decays at the LHC, emphasizing early data prospects.

Findings

Discovery reach estimates for various search channels.

Development of decay reconstruction techniques.

Analysis of gauge-mediated SUSY models with neutralino NLSP.

Abstract

We review the current strategies to search for generic SUSY models with R-parity conservation in the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC. The discovery reach in early data will be presented for the different search channels based on missing transverse momentum from undetected neutralinos and multiple jets. We will also describe the search for models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking for which the NLSP is a neutralino decaying to a photon and a gravitino. Finally, we will present recent work on techniques used to reconstruct the decays of SUSY particles at the LHC in early data, based on the selection of final-state exclusive decay chains.