Speaker
Ms
Veronika Magerl
(University of Freiburg)
Description
Despite the absence of experimental evidence, weak-scale supersymmetry remains one of the
best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. Searches for weak-scale supersymmetry
interact with QCD in many ways: QCD scaling rules are used in background estimation techniques;
jet sub-structure is exploited for separating signal and background; signal cross sections
rely on higher-order calculations and resummation. Additional complex QCD issues arise
in searches for R-hadrons, hadrons that include long-lived SUSY particles.
This talk summarizes recent ATLAS results on supersymmetry searches, focusing on those
aspects that most strongly interact with QCD.
Primary author
Ms
Veronika Magerl
(University of Freiburg)