Where’s SUSY? The electroweak SUSY landscape after ATLAS Run 2 searches

16 Jan 2024
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Speaker(s)

Dr. Ben Hodgkinson
University of Oxford

Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Knowledge of physics?
Yes, knowledge of physics required

Abstract

During Run 2 of the LHC, ATLAS performed a suite of searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) which produced null results and extensive limits on particle masses in simplified scenarios. However, many SUSY scenarios could have evaded detection through a richer phenomenology not captured by these simplified models. I will present the constraints from eight of the key searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles, interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM. I will also discuss the complementarity of these searches to constraints from beyond ATLAS, such as limits from dark matter experiments. These results provide an overview of the electroweak SUSY landscape after the ATLAS Run 2 search programme and highlight places where SUSY could yet be hiding.