SUSY SEARCHES AT 13 TEV AT ATLAS

In 2015, the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recorded 3.2 fb-1 of data at the unprecedented centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Predicted cross sections for strong production of squark or gluino pairs increase as much as tenfold between 8 TeV and 13 TeV for masses in the TeV range, just above the limits set at 8 TeV, so this was a particularly interesting early search for Run-2 of the LHC. Many final-state signatures were investigated, and lower limits set on squark and gluino masses in a number of simpli ed models.