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Constraints on supersymmetry with light third family from LHC data

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We present a re-interpretation of the recent ATLAS limits on supersymmetry in channels with jets (with and without b-tags) and missing energy, in the context of light third family squarks, while the first two squark families are inaccessible at the 7 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In contrast to interpretations in terms of the high- scale based constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (CMSSM), we primarily use the low-scale parametrisation of the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM), and translate the limits in terms of physical masses of the third family squarks. Side by side, we also investigate the limits in terms of high-scale scalar non-universality, both with and without low-mass sleptons. Our conclusion is that the limits based on zero-lepton channels are not altered by the mass-scale of sleptons, and can be considered more or less model- independent.

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Desai, N., Mukhopadhyaya, B. Constraints on supersymmetry with light third family from LHC data. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 57 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2012)057

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