On the coverage of the pMSSM by simplified model results

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We investigate to which extent the SUSY search results published by ATLAS and CMS in the context of simplified models actually cover the more realistic scenarios of a full model.

• Concretely, we work within the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM) with 19 free parameters and compare the constraints obtained from SModelSv1.1.1 with those from the ATLAS pMSSM study in arXiv:1508.06608.
• We find that about 40-45% of the points excluded by ATLAS escape the currently available simplified model constraints.
• For these points we identify the most relevant topologies which are not tested by the current simplified model results.