Supersymmetry Searches at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment, 2011

TL;DR

This paper reviews CMS experiment's efforts in searching for Supersymmetry at the LHC, highlighting recent results with about 1 inverse femtobarn of data, and discusses the challenges in probing certain SUSY models.

Contribution

It provides an overview of CMS SUSY search analyses with new public results and discusses the limitations and future prospects of current search strategies.

Findings

Extended limits on gluino and squark production

Presented four new public analysis results

Current searches have yet to find evidence for SUSY

Abstract

The discovery/exclusion of Supersymmetric models for fundamental interactions of particles is one of the milestones targeted by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and in particular comprises of a large part of the physics program of the CMS experiment. Since the initial measurements using the 36\ipb of integrated luminosity delivered by the LHC in 2010, presently available results utilize about one fifth of the data delivered in 2011, i.e. in the ballpark of 1\ifb, significantly extending the world limits placed on gluino and squark production signals. An overview of these analyses is presented, highlighting four that had been newly made public as of the date of this conference. The evidence for Supersymmetry (SUSY) is still elusive, and a discussion follows as to where current searches have not yet probed, also pointing out where they might have difficulty ever probing without dedicated arrangements.