Supersymmetry production cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV
Abstract
This document emerged from work that started in January 2012 as a joint effort by the ATLAS, CMS and LPCC supersymmetry (SUSY) working groups to compile state-of-the-art cross section predictions for SUSY particle production at the LHC. We present cross sections for various SUSY processes in pp collisions at TeV, including an estimate of the theoretical uncertainty due to scale variation and the parton distribution functions. Further results for higher LHC centre-of-mass energies will be collected at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/SUSYCrossSections. For squark and gluino production, which dominate the inclusive SUSY cross section, we employ calculations which include the resummation of soft gluon emission at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, matched to next-to-leading order (NLO) SUSY-QCD. In all other cases we rely on NLO SUSY-QCD predictions.
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@article{arxiv.1206.2892,
title = {Supersymmetry production cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV},
author = {Michael Krämer and Anna Kulesza and Robin van der Leeuw and Michelangelo Mangano and Sanjay Padhi and Tilman Plehn and Xavier Portell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2892},
year = {2012}
}