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Saturday, November 21, 2020

University of Chicago - 'Search of a lifetime' for supersymmetric particles at CERN

Title:
'Search of a lifetime' for supersymmetric particles at CERN

By:
University of Chicago

Published:
Phys.org, 20 November 2020

From the article:
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago recently embarked on the search of a lifetime—or rather, a search for the lifetime of long-lived supersymmetric particles.

Supersymmetry is a proposed theory to expand the Standard Model of particle physics. Akin to the periodic table of elements, the Standard Model is the best description we have for subatomic particles in nature and the forces acting on them.  
 
But physicists know this model is incomplete—it doesn't make room for gravity or dark matter, for example.