SModelS v1.1 user manual: Improving simplified model constraints with efficiency maps

Additional comments including Restrictions and Unusual features: At present, the tool is limited to signatures with missing transverse energy, and only models with a Z2-like symmetry can be tested. Each SMS is defined purely by the vertex structure and the SM final state particles; BSM particles are described only by their masses, production cross sections and branching ratios. Possible differences in signal selection efficiencies arising, e.g., from different production mechanisms or from the spin of the BSM particles, are ignored in this approach. Since only part of the full model can be constrained by SMS results, SModelS will always remain more conservative (though orders of magnitude faster) than “full recasting” approaches.