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We discuss collider signatures of the “natural supersymmetry” scenario with baryon-number violating R-parity violation. We argue that this is one of the few remaining viable incarnations of weak scale supersymmetry consistent with full electroweak naturalness. We show that this intriguing and challenging scenario contains distinctive LHC signals, resonances of hard jets in conjunction with relatively soft leptons and missing energy, which are easily overlooked by existing LHC searches. We propose novel strategies for distinguishing these signals above background, and estimate their potential reach at the 8 TeV LHC. We show that other multi-lepton signals of this scenario can be seen by currently existing searches with increased statistics, but these opportunities are more spectrum-dependent.

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  1. Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, U.S.A.

    Christopher Brust & Raman Sundrum

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, U.S.A.

    Christopher Brust

  3. Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.

    Andrey Katz

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Brust, C., Katz, A. & Sundrum, R. SUSY stops at a bump. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 59 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2012)059

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