Status and Prospects of Supersymmetry Searches at Colliders

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current status of collider searches for supersymmetry, highlighting the experimental achievements, the lack of evidence so far, and the prospects with upcoming high-energy collider experiments like the LHC.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the experimental efforts and future prospects for discovering supersymmetry at colliders, especially with the upcoming 14 TeV LHC.

Findings

Standard Model well established

No current evidence for supersymmetry

Upcoming colliders may confirm or refute supersymmetry

Abstract

Experiments at particle colliders have reached center of mass energies well above 100 GeV, equivalent to temperatures which existed shortly after the big bang. These experiments, testing the initial conditions of the universe have, with great precision, established the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In contrast, the existence of the Higgs boson and perhaps Supersymmetry remain speculative, as todays searches have failed to find signs of their existence. However, the next generation of high energy collider experiments and especially CERN's 14 TeV LHC, expected to start operation in the year 2005, should lead either to the discovery of the Higgs and Supersymmetry or disprove todays theoretical ideas.