Automated Squark and Gluino Production to Next-to-Leading Order

Understand

We present completely general next-to-leading order predictions for squark and gluino production at the LHC, based on the fully automated MadGolem tool.

• Without any assumptions on the mass spectrum we predict production rates and examine the structure of the massless and massive quantum corrections.
• This allows us to quantify theory uncertainties induced by the spectrum assumptions commonly made.
• Going beyond total rates we compare general fixed-order distributions to resummed predictions from jet merging.