Speaker
Prof.
Xerxes Tata
(University of Hawaii)
Description
We delineate the SUSY reach for the LHC operating at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV,
for integrated luminosities ranging from 100~pb$^{-1}$ up to 1~fb$^{-1}$,
that is anticipated to be accumulated before its energyupgrade to
14~TeV. Motivated by the quality of the early LHC measurements, we
include missing transverse energy in our assessment of the reach, and
show that for degenerate squarks and gluinos LHC7, with 1~fb$^{-1}$ of
integrated luminosity, would be sensitive to sparticles as heavy as
1.1~TeV. If it turns out that missing transverse energy cannot be
reliably determined, then the corresponding reach drops to just under 700 GeV
(900 GeV) in the relatively background-free trilepton/same sign dilepton
(acollinear di-jet) channels. We also discuss how uncertainties on the
data-driven background determination will affect the LHC7 reach.
Primary author
Prof.
Xerxes Tata
(University of Hawaii)
Co-authors
Mr
Andre Lessa
(University of Oklahoma)
Prof.
Howard Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
Prof.
Vernon Barger
(University of Wisconsin)
