Does bosonic superpartners create new fundamental forces?

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In the context of broken supersymmetry (SUSY), every fermion in the Standard Model (SM) has a corresponding bosonic superpartner, such as the selectron for the electron. These bosons are theorized to act as gauge bosons, potentially creating new short-ranged fundamental forces. The discussion raises the question of whether experimental evidence exists for these new forces associated with SUSY particles like squarks and sneutrinos. While the effects of these forces may be weak, the existence of numerous fermions implies an equal number of SUSY bosons, leading to the possibility of new interactions.

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in broken supersymmetry every fermion has a super partner that is a boson, with same internal quantum numbers, except mass. i.e superpartner of an electron is a selectron, which is a boson.

in QFT gauge bosons are force carriers. gauge bosons with mass create a force that is short-ranged,

wouldn't each and every fermion in the SM in SUSY create a gauge boson that is the susy-partner of a fermion, that also creates a new fundamental force of nature? all of these forces would be short-ranged.

is there any experimental evidence of new, short-ranged fundamental forces predicted by SUSY associated with squarks selectrons stops, sneutrinos, etc?
 
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The definition of "force" or "interaction" is a bit arbitrary. They would not create something like the interactions we know, but in general they can have some (very weak) effects.
 
mfb said:
The definition of "force" or "interaction" is a bit arbitrary. They would not create something like the interactions we know, but in general they can have some (very weak) effects.

any specific predictions? there are many fermions, so there should be equal number of susy-partner bosons.

also do the anti-matter counterparts of fermions also have susy-partner bosons? i.e spositron
 

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