Abstract
As we anticipate the first results of the 2016 run, we assess the discovery potential of the LHC to “natural supersymmetry.” To begin with, we explore the region of the model parameter space that can be excluded with various center-of-mass energies (13 TeV and 14 TeV) and different luminosities (, , and ). We find that the bounds at 95% C.L. on stops vary from expected this summer to at the end of the high luminosity run, while gluino bounds are expected to range from to over the same time period. However, more pessimistically, we find that if no signal begins to appear this summer, only a very small region of parameter space can be discovered with significance. For this conclusion to change, we find that both theoretical and systematic uncertainties will need to be significantly reduced.
6 More- Received 14 July 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095013
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