SUSY@LHC - Background Estimation from Data

Abstract

Searches for inclusive signatures of the production of supersymmetric
particles are among the first physics studies to be performed by the
experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The large backgrounds 
from Standard Model processes have to be strongly suppressed and well 
understood before the discovery of new physics can be claimed. Since
both the knowledge of the detector performance and the theoretical 
predictions are considered not reliable enough, much of the recent 
efforts of LHC data analysis preparation is devoted to the development 
of methods for the estimation of the background contributions directly
from the data.