Direct SUSY Searches at the LHC in the light of LEP Higgs Bounds

TL;DR

This paper compares recent LHC SUSY searches with LEP Higgs bounds, finding that LHC searches are still in early stages of constraining models with moderate tan(beta).

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of LHC and LEP bounds on SUSY, highlighting the current limitations of LHC searches for certain models.

Findings

LHC SUSY searches are only beginning to compete with LEP Higgs bounds.

For moderate tan(beta), LHC zero-lepton MET searches are not yet fully constraining.

SUSY searches at the LHC are still in early development stages.

Abstract

In this note we compare the latest 1.04 fb^{-1} LHC searches for squarks and gluinos from jets and missing transverse momentum (MET) with constraints arising from the LEP Higgs bound. For General Gauge Mediation models with moderate values of tan(beta) we find that the zero-lepton MET searches of supersymmetry at the LHC are only starting to be competitive with the Higgs bounds from LEP. From this perspective and for such models, the SUSY searches at the LHC are still very much in the beginning.