SUSY Signals from QCD Production at the Upgraded LHC

Abstract

Weak-scale supersymmetry remains to be one of the best-motivated theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. We evaluate the sensitivities of the High Luminosity (HL) and High Energy (HE) upgrades of the LHC to gluinos and stops, decaying through the simplified topologies $\tilde{g}\to q\bar{q}{\chi }^0$, $\tilde{g}\to t\bar{t}{\chi }^0$ and $\tilde{t}\to t{\tilde{\chi }}^0$. Our HL-LHC analyses improve on existing experimental projections by optimizing the acceptance of kinematic variables. The HE-LHC studies represent the first 27 TeV analyses. We find that the HL-(HE-)LHC with 3 ab${}^{-1}$ (15 ab${}^{-1}$) of integrated luminosity will be sensitive to the masses of gluinos and stops at 3.2 (5.7) TeV and 1.5 (2.7) TeV, respectively, decaying to massless neutralinos.

arXiv comment17 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. v2: typos corrected, minor changes, conclusions unaffected, version published in PLB

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