  Motivated by the shift in experimental attention towards electroweak
supersymmetric particle production at the CERN LHC, we update in this paper our
precision predictions at next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD matched to
resummation at the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for direct slepton pair
production in proton-proton collisions. Simplified models, now commonly adopted
by the experimental collaborations for selectrons and smuons as well as mixing
staus, are used as benchmarks for total cross sections at achieved and future
center-of-mass energies. They are presented together with the corresponding
scale and parton density uncertainties in graphical and tabular form for future
reference. Using modern Monte Carlo techniques, we also reanalyze recent ATLAS
and CMS slepton searches in light of our precision cross sections and for
various assumptions on the decomposition of the sleptons and their neutralino
decay products.
