It also predicts a whole new population of elementary particles - called "superpartners" to the particles physicists already know about - one of which could be the dark matter that pervades the universe. ❋ By DENNIS OVERBYE (2011)
The collider might also reveal yet another set of particles, the "superpartners," needed to bolster the case for String Theory, a "theory of everything" that proposes the existence of six extra dimensions and a universe constructed of tiny vibrating strings. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In terms of what other discoveries might come out of the experiments, Hawking said that the experiment could discover 'superpartners', particles that would be "supersymmetric partners" to particles already known about. ❋ Unknown (2008)
My money's on the LHC won't find 'superpartners' black-holes or the 'Higgs particle; the ❋ Skeptico (2008)
In addition to allowing a light enough Higgs particle, this theory can also contain light stops (the superpartners of the top quark), which can help to achieve a strongly first order phase transition. ❋ Mark (2008)
The discovery that makes sense is supersymmetry, i.e. the superpartners of some of the Standard Model particles. ❋ Sean (2008)
So, unless someone comes up with a new way to fix the CC moduli in Type IIA, getting low scale superpartners from Type IIA is problematic. ❋ Sean (2007)
If the LHC sees superpartners, it will probably give us some strong clues about how SUSY-breaking is mediated, which in turn could give us strong clues about the sorts of string constructions we might be dealing with. ❋ Sean (2007)
As long as we can derive the spectrum of superpartners or at least find some nontrivial relations between them, that is a real prediction. ❋ Sean (2007)
Scientists will then spend the next several years sifting through piles of data trying to recognize black holes and Higgs bosons and superpartners in the data. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If they exist, superpartners could help unify theories about gravity and quantum mechanics, and explain what happened to a big chuck of mass missing from the universe, so-called dark matter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There’s a lot of indirect phenomenological evidence that indeed some superpartners will be seen at LHC, such as the unification of the forces at very short distances, the absence of large new effects at the LEP and Tevatron colliders, and the very good indirect evidence for a light Higgs boson. ❋ Sean (2008)
If the superpartners have properties that are explained by a reasonably simple string theory model (in the sense that the inputs to the model are simpler than the outputs it is matching to experiment) I’d certainly reconsider, and if the model makes testable predictions that were checked, of course I would agree that I had been completely wrong, highly foolish, and shut up about this for good. ❋ Sean (2007)
Just finding superpartners wouldn’t necessarily address the problems with the lack of predictivity of string theory. ❋ Sean (2007)
Just out of curiosity, if the LHC does find superpartners (as I know you expect it won’t), would you reconsider your opposition to string theory? ❋ Sean (2007)
"more quickly increasing with energy" - because the "screening" effect is larger due to the larger number of charged particle species (the superpartners and new Higgses and higgsinos). ❋ Unknown (2010)
[Editor's Note: Wikipedia: "In particle physics, supersymmetery (SUSY) is a symmetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to another particle that differs by half a unit of spin and are known as superpartners. ❋ Unknown (2008)
