Speaker
Max Goblirsch-Kolb
(MPP)
Description
With the discovery of a light Higgs boson, the question of whether TeV-scale supersymmetry (SUSY) could solve the little hierarchy problem is more relevant than ever. This talk will provide an overview of searches by the ATLAS collaboration for SUSY in the case that R-parity is violated (RPV SUSY). In this case, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) decays to standard model particles, either promptly or with a finite lifetime. For this reason, such scenarios could evade conventional searches that rely on a signature of large missing transverse momentum from a stable LSP. To recover sensitivity in this case, dedicated searches for events with high lepton and jet multiplicities are performed, as well as searches for new metastable particles. It is shown that the data collected by ATLAS in 2012 can strongly constrain a wide variety of RPV SUSY scenarios.
