Description
Naturalness arguments favour supersymmetric partners of third generation quarks with
masses not too dissimilar to their standard model counterparts. Both top and bottom
squarks with masses of a few hundred GeV can lead to high direct pair production rates
at the LHC. This talk presents a summary of ATLAS results for direct stop and sbottom
pair production using 20/fb of 8 TeV pp collision data, then provides an overview of the
prospects for the 13 TeV data, focusing in particular on the search for hadronic stop decays.
