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This work explores the potential reach of the 7 TeV LHC to new colored states in the context of simplified models and addresses the issue of which search regions are necessary to cover an extensive set of event topologies and kinematic regimes. This article demonstrates that if searches are designed to focus on specific regions of phase space, then new physics may be missed if it lies in unexpected corners. Simple multiregion search strategies can be designed to cover all of kinematic possibilities. A set of benchmark models are created that cover the qualitatively different signatures and a benchmark multiregion search strategy is presented that covers these models.
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Alves, D.S.M., Izaguirre, E. & Wacker, J.G. Where the sidewalk ends: jets and missing energy search strategies for the 7 TeV LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 12 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)012
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