Searches for weakly produced SUSY at LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews various CMS and ATLAS searches for weakly produced supersymmetry at the LHC, focusing on methodologies, background estimation, and recent results probing squark, gluino, and electroweak particle scenarios.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of search strategies and recent experimental limits on weakly produced SUSY particles at the LHC.

Findings

Current searches exclude squarks and gluinos up to 1.4 TeV

Electroweak production scenarios are favored in some cases

Latest results include Higgs decay channels and VBF production

Abstract

A summary of the different searches for weakly produced SUSY by both CMS and ATLAS is presented here. A review on the methodology of these searches, including event selection, background suppression and estimation methods, etc is covered. Other searches at the LHC already probe squarks and gluino masses up to 1.4 TeV, such scenario, may favour electroweak production of charginos and neutralinos, that will produce many-lepton final states accompanied by E$_{\rm T}^{\rm miss}\,$ and very little hadronic activity. Latest searches include Higgs boson in the decay and exploits VBF associated production to probe scenarios with very small mass splittings.