Tag: SUSY

  • From beam dumps to missing energy: the SPS search for hidden particles

    From beam dumps to missing energy: the SPS search for hidden particles

    For more than four decades, CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron has served as a testing ground for new ways to search for particles that interact only feebly with ordinary matter. In a recent lecture, NA64 co-spokesperson Paolo Crivelli traced the evolution of this programme – from the first beam-dump experiments to missing-energy and missing-momentum searches, precision…

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  • Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint

    Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint

    Before the LHC began operations, expectations were immense. It was not perceived simply as CERN’s next machine after LEP, but as “the next machine after everything”—a collider expected to settle how electroweak symmetry is broken.

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  • Where is Supersymmetry?

    Where is Supersymmetry?

    Where is Supersymmetry? The original ideas The original ideas for introducing supersymmetry dates back in the 1960s when, in the context of hadron physics that was found to be approximately spin-flavour independent, a symmetry between mesons and baryons was proposed. These ideas, largely ignored at the time, found their way through mathematical investigations related to

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