Universe Colloquium: Status of Supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 and prospects for Run 2

by Jeanette Lorenz (LMU)

Wednesday 14 Jan 2015, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room (Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstrasse 2, Garching)

Supersymmetry is one of the most interesting theories beyond the Standard Model, solving the hierarchy problem and providing an explanation for Dark Matter. Both the ATLAS and the CMS collaborations pursued a rich search programme to discover Supersymmetry during Run 1 of the Large Hadron Collider. Stringent limits were placed in some specific supersymmetric models, e.g. excluding gluino masses below ~1.3 TeV under certain assumptions. Other models remained inaccessible during Run 1 or have not been addressed yet. The increased centre-of-mass energy and statistics in Run 2 will allow to extend the sensitivity of current and novel searches for Supersymmetry considerably. The search for Supersymmetry will thus be one of the main priorities for LHC Run 2. This talk will present a summary of the experimental search strategy for Supersymmetry during Run 1 along with some highlighted results and will present prospects for Run 2. The Universe Colloquium is followed by a social gathering with wine and cheese.