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Direct SUSY Searches at the LHC in the light of LEP Higgs bounds

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In this note we compare the latest 1.04 fb−1 LHC searches for squarks and gluinos from jets and missing transverse momentum (MET) with constraints arising from the LEP Higgs bound. For General Gauge Mediation models with moderate values of tan(β) we find that the zero-lepton MET searches of supersymmetry at the LHC are only starting to be competitive with the Higgs bounds from LEP. From this perspective and for such models, the SUSY searches at the LHC are still very much in the beginning.

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    David Grellscheid, Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze, Peter Richardson & Chris Wymant

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Grellscheid, D., Jaeckel, J., Khoze, V.V. et al. Direct SUSY Searches at the LHC in the light of LEP Higgs bounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 78 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2012)078

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