Supersimetory, a theory that presents each known primary particle, is a heavy “superpartner” particle, the superstar of theoretical physics for the previous half century. Its supporters have seen it as the best expectation for particle physics to solve long -time mysteries such as dark matter. Skepticists have opposed their privileged treatment in the absence of experimental verification. In Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, after finding evidence for supersimetory, became the next great hope after the discovery of Higgs Boson after his Atlas and CMS experiments. Despite the discovery of more than a decade, both experiments are still coming empty.
The cultural grip of the supersimetory on the field has been so strong that at the end of the principle – it should come anytime – what will be difficult. But now that moment can be here: Atlas and CMS teams have no longer dedicated to the working groups to supersimetory.
Such work groups are the backbone of Atlas and CMS Research, which organize hundreds of analysis under thematic umbrellas. In the early 2010s, as soon as the proton collisions of the LHC began, each experiment supersimetory group was the favorite Avenue for “New Physics” discoveries – and even enjoyed a protected position in terms of resources and attention. The idea that there would be no dedicated group one day, many people would have suffered a setback.
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“Supersti was a huge industry that began around the 1990s 2015. But the lack of superparters discovery after upgrading to the high collision energy of LHC was a significant twist for most communities,” Edam Falkovsky, two Infinite Juliet-Kurai (Izlab), a theoretical physicist in the laboratory of physics.
A “Bible” belief
To understand the appeal of the supersonation, someone must look back in the early 1970s. In an attempt to reach beyond the standard model, the principle describing all known primary particles and their relations, the theorists in the Soviet Union and the US carried forward the supersimetory as a possible way, there is a proposed correspondence among the known particles with its central feature and till now.
Theorists soon realized that the mathematical equipment involved in “Susy” (commonly used nickname) could fix many vixing problems in physics. Pozated superparters were candidates ready for dark matter particles, and Susie offered potential routes for the principle of quantum gravity. Additionally, it acts as a significant scaffold for string theory and was an important argument for the construction of LHC. As the number of publications reviewed by the colleagues on Susi Soded became a cultural event, in which lovers scrutinizes its recognition as a closing conclusion, almost a closing conclusion, churning the science communication books, articles and interviews.
“When I was a student,” Focovski says, “Susi’s existence was almost a fact for a large people of researchers working on the subject. It was certainly reflected in the practices of hiring, and you had a large group of top researchers, whose entire publication list was tied to supersmior.”
All times, no experimental discoveries came together, and the supersimetric models became infamous uncontrolled, mainly due to their arbitrary characteristics. The models came with hand-added unknown values to come up with multiple variables and required fine-tuning to explain the absence of Susie from the natural world. Calculation to predict the public of superparters prone To Towards upwards revision After each zero result in several generations of colloidors.
“Physicists follow the trends,” says Sheldon Glasho, a Nobel Prize winner at Boston University and one architects of standard models.
Search for strict susy
Nevertheless, the lightest superparters in the simplest Susi model Must be Within the reach of LHC collisions – otherwise they could not address problems that were invited to solve them.
In 2015, the upgradation of LHC almost doubled the energy of its confrontation for 13 your electron volts, but the analysis came with empty hands and coming with supporters and opponents equally equally. Enthusiasm for Susi once began To Downfall,
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A decade ahead fast. Last year, Atlas reorganized its research work, dividing the declining Susie study between three groups. As a result, groups formed in October 2024, Higgs, Multi-Bosone and Susi Search (HMBS) (Earlier, the open call of the Atlas team quickly evolved into the commentary for naming this new group, such as “novel physics was detected,” or “,” and “Nop,” and “Group,” and “Group,” and “and”
Similarly, in CMS two years ago, the Susi Group began to take people who are usually associated with holiday theory (although the same “signature” was usually attached to the Holiday theory-the mutual interactions that serve as the “fingerprint” of various physical procedures in the collision). Referring to that change, this January was re -designed as a more common new physics with standard goods (NPs).
“There were two main reasons for the reconstruction of the group: a researcher of the NPS group of CMS and a researcher Cécile Caillol: forming the same size search groups and shared ideas in analysis with similar methods.” The new group has about one -third analysis of Susie, she says. Sarah alderwelladt, a convenor of HMBS of Atlas, provides similar inspiration behind the reorganization of Atlas, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and notes that HMBS work on Susi is going on: “Our new group still includes a dedicated Susi focus,” she says.
Fokovsky, which is not involved with the group, provides his own translation: “Just not enough to keep the venture running,” they say. “In addition, from a practical point of view, it makes very little understanding to keep supersimetric discoveries in a separate box from other discoveries, as the technology involved is often overlapping. In all, in all, it was the only intelligent decision, given the development of the region.”
Big bet
Atlas and CMS equally now saw the signature of the most straight model and has not seen anything new, but there are always other possibilities. Howard Bayer, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, states that more sophisticated, highly admirable supersimetric models exist, with micro signatures that can be understood in additional LHC data in the coming years so far. “It is a matter of rise in LHC analyzes,” he said, “the rise of simplified models in LHC analyzes has reduced communication between theorists and experimentalists.” Trouble, as he sees it, is “novels but highly impossible principles are given importance with similar weight with principles (eg Susy) that solve fundamental problems in physics.”
Although many models are theoretically well inspired, their almost immense variety is a point of dispute for long -standing skptics. This ambiguity is sometimes bypassed through bets: some major Physicists Pass Stake On very specific supersimetric discoveries in LHC. Most have accepted, but some bets are officially unresolved due to the ongoing disagreement between the Wagging parties about the actual situation of the supersimetory.
However, there is a big bet in the game that supersed individual squabals to include the perfection of particle physics: the condition that will reduce the path for a new generation of more powerful experiments more powerful than the success of the supermatory. Instead, the non-cooks of the Susy, added with the discovery of all estimated standard model particles, make it difficult to justify the major international investment required for any large, better accelerator. Glasho comments, “The ground is well treoden, and nothing is shown. Things will change if and when the next great collider is deployed …. We won’t see, but we can have children.”
Even if a project is physical, another difficult choice is waiting: Should the collider focus on high bump energy, usually to find new particles or to reveal new effects, is necessary on more accurate measurements of known particles (such as Higgs)? A single machine cannot both both properly.
These ideas are echoed in Focovski’s stoic predictions: “For the whole physics beyond standard model, gradually low interest, low papers, less experimental, find less for new particles,” they say. The “shift ‘will be away from physics towards the exact’ physics, or ‘colider’.”
And currently, he says, unlike the previous decades, a researcher working on a fully sui will no longer be popular in the job market. BAER notes similarly that some young physicists make funding proposals for Susy discoveries.
The broad length of a fruitless collective discovery can put its shadow at this point. But this can also prove to be Susie’s biggest legacy, the way things are reported to be changes. Borrowing from a separate area, in the words of home-tiding expert Mary Kondo, “When you come in front of something that is difficult to abandon, consider it carefully why you have that specific item in the first place …. If you bought it, you have bought it because you thought that it is good in the shop, when you bought it, you have completed a thrill.”
Regarding the ongoing LHC discoveries, one thing is certain, as the Atlas physicist Comment Online last September, “Susy is still a good principle, (but) it is no longer understanding to consider a privileged principle compared to others.”
