E. Dudas (Conv.), Biblop (Conv.), S. Kraml (Conv.), Juhi Dutta. Sridhar, Namrata Manglani, K. Rai, Sudhir Vempati, Björn Herrmann, Grégory Moreau, Nilanjana Kumar, Ayon Patra, Mathew Arun Thomas,Priyanka Lamba

SModelS [Sabine Kraml, Juhi Dutta] :

• We've been updating the SModelS results database with the CMS 13 TeV SUSY SMS results. This was released as the SModelS database v1.1.2. The associated paper “SModelS extension with the CMS supersymmetry search results from Run 2”, 1803.02204, was published in LHEP 1 (2018) no.1, 5-12.
• We also wrote a new manual for the SModelS v.1.2 series, see 1811.10624. This will be submitted to Comput. Phys. Comm. for publication.
• We are now working to use this for a variety of physics analyses. In particular we are investigating simplified model constraints in the Littlest Higgs Model. This is work in progress.

Proton decay and flavour violation in SUSY GUTs

Stephane Lavignac from Saclay, and Sudhir Vempati and Priyanka Lamba (PhD student) from Bangalore, have started a new common project on proton decay and flavour violation in supersymmetric Grand Unified models based on the SU(5) gauge group. The goal is to investigate the viability of the so-called « mini-split » scenario, in which the first two generations of sfermions (the supersymmetric partners of the fermions) are much heavier than the third generation ones, in order to alleviate proton decay and flavour physics constraints constraints. […] They have started to write a code computing the proton lifetime in the presence of flavour violating sfermion mass terms. The next step is to use this code to impose the proton decay constraint on the mini-split scenario, together with the flavour constraints.