  In this paper, we investigate how a sizeable width-to-mass ratio for a
gluino, as is for example realized in GMSB scenarios, could affect the
discovery potential of gluinos at the LHC. More importantly, the influence of
the gluino being "fat" on the standard mass and spin determination methods at
the LHC are investigated. For this purpose, we focus on gluino production at
the LHC, where we do not factorize the first step in the gluino decay cascade,
but treat the following decay cascades step in factorization, including full
spin correlations. The effects of sizeable width-to-mass ratios from a few up
to 15-20 per cent on the endpoint of several mass determination methods as well
as on means for discrimination between BSM spin paradigms like SUSY and UED are
studied.
