Max Swiatlowski, "Knocking on SUSY’s Door: New ATLAS Results from Searches at 13 TeV"
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Abstract: After Run 1 of the LHC, supersymmetry still stands as an attractive solution to the hierarchy problem and other open questions in particle physics. Models featuring strongly interacting supersymmetric particles— gluinos and squarks— are particularly compelling at Run 2 of the LHC, where the increased center-of-mass energy leads to dramatically improved sensitivity. The results of ATLAS’s broad program of SUSY searches is presented, with a particular focus on searches for models with gluionos and light third-generation superpartners. New analysis techniques, including for the first time boosted top-quark tagging, significantly increase the strength of the searches, but no evidence for new physics is found. Prospects for a broader set of searches, particularly in the context of R-parity violating models, are also discussed.
