Prospects for R-Parity Conserving SUSY searches at the LHC

Abstract

We review the current strategies to search for generic SUSY models with R-parity conservation in the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC. The discovery reach in early data will be presented for the different search channels based on missing transverse momentum from undetected neutralinos and multiple jets. We will also describe the search for models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking for which the NLSP is a neutralino decaying to a photon and a gravitino. Finally, we will present recent work on techniques used to reconstruct the decays of SUSY particles at the LHC in early data, based on the selection of final-state exclusive decay chains.

5 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Krakow, Poland, 16 Jul - 22 Jul 2009, available on the CERN document server under the number ATL-PHYS-PROC-2009-081