hypothetical particles is introduced to produce a given topological signature. The amplitude describing the production and decay of these particles is parameterized in terms of the particle masses. Compared with the constrained SUSY models, SMS provide benchmarks that focus on one final-state topology at a time, with a broader variation in the masses determining the final-state kinematics. The SMS are thus useful for comparing search strategies as well as for identifying challenging areas of parameter space where search methods may lack sensitivity. Furthermore, by providing a tabulation of both the signal acceptance and the 95% confidence level () exclusion limit on the signal cross section as a function of the SMS mass parameters, SMS results can be used to place limits on a wide variety of theoretical models beyond SUSY.

The considered SMS scenarios produce multijet final states with or without leptons and $\cPqb$-tagged jets [@SUS-11-016]. While the SUSY terminology is employed, interpretations of SMS scenarios are not restricted to SUSY scenarios.

In the SMS scenarios considered here, each produced particle decays directly to the LSP and SM particles through a two-body or three-body decay. Simplified models that are relevant to inclusive hadronic jets+analyses are gluino pair production with the 