Speaker
Wolfgang Waltenberger
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Description
We present an automated software tool "SModelS" to systematically confront theories
Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) with experimental data. The tool consists of a
general procedure to decompose such BSM theories into their Simplified Model
Spectra (SMS). In addition, SModelS features a database containing the
majority of the published SMS results of CMS and ATLAS. These SMS results
contain the 95% confidence level upper limits on signal production cross
sections. These two components together allow us to quickly confront any BSM
model with LHC results.
Recently, support for signal efficiency maps has been added to our software
framework, hence also efficiency maps published by the experimental
collaborations can be used. Using recasting tools like MadAnalysis5 or
CheckMATE, such efficiency maps can also be created outside the experimental
collaborations, allowing us to further enrich our database and improve the
constraining power of our approach. It is our aim to extend our effort beyond
collider searches for new physics, exploiting also information about BSM
physics contained in precision measurements, or dark matter searches.
As show-case examples we will discuss an application of our procedure to specific
supersymmetric models, show how the limits constrain these models, and point
out regions in parameter space still unchallenged by the current SMS results.
While the current implementation can handle null results only, it is our
ultimate goal to build the next standard model in a bottom-up fashion from
both negative and positive results of several experiments. The implementation
is open source, written in python, and available from http://smodels.hephy.at.
Authors
Andre Lessa
(IFGW - UNICAMP)
Federico Ambrogi
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Michael Traub
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Sabine Kraml
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Suchita Kulkarni
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Ursula Laa
(LPSC Grenoble)
Veronika Magerl
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Wolfgang Waltenberger
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
