Uncovering the Truth: New Measurement Challenges Supersymmetry Theories

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The recent findings significantly challenge the validity of supersymmetry theories, which propose that every known particle has a corresponding supersymmetric twin. Basic models of supersymmetry have been ruled out by new measurements, while more complex models may still predict undetected phenomena, such as a small electric dipole moment. Eugene Commins, an emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, emphasizes the disparity between theorists and experimentalists, noting that while theorists can quickly devise models, it takes experimentalists decades to disprove them. This highlights the ongoing complexities in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

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maybe no supersymmetry...

"The new result deals a significant blow to many new physics theories, most notably supersymmetry, a favored idea that suggests each known particle in the Universe has a supersymmetric twin particle that has yet to be discovered"

"Although some basic models of the theory have been ruled out by the latest measurement, more-complex models predict a small electric dipole moment that could be hiding in the range physicists have yet to search. “You can endlessly make models of supersymmetry,” says Eugene Commins, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the last search for the dipole moment in atoms. “A good theorist can invent a model in half an hour, and it takes an experimentalist 20 years to kill it".http://www.nature.com/news/electron...ashing-hopes-for-new-physics-theories-1.14163
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7534
 
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audioloop said:
“A good theorist can invent a model in half an hour, and it takes an experimentalist 20 years to kill it"

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