Sunday, April 22, 2012

Scientific American: "Is Supersymmetry Dead?"

The May Scientific American magazine asks "Is Supersymmetry Dead?" in reference to the failure thus far to find superparticles at the Large Hadron Collider. Some of the key quotes are the following:

“Wherever we look, we see nothing—that is, we see no deviations from the Standard Model,” says Giacomo Polesello of Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Pavia... “To put it bluntly,” Polesello says, “the situation is that we have ruled out a number of ‘easy’ models that should have showed up right away.”