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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The particle symmetrical to a given particle according to supersymmetry, by which symmetry each fermion is hypothetically associated with a corresponding supersymmetric boson, and each boson with a supersymmetric fermion.
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- noun physics Any
particle related to a more standard particle bysupersymmetry .
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Tommaso Dorigo, an experimenter at the University of Padua in Italy, doubts that the LHC will find evidence of supersymmetry, a theoretical scheme that predicts a massive "superpartner" for every known particle in physicists 'current "standard model."
WordPress.com News 2008
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Tommaso Dorigo, an experimenter at the University of Padua in Italy, doubts that the LHC will find evidence of supersymmetry, a theoretical scheme that predicts a massive "superpartner" for every known particle in physicists 'current "standard model."
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Tommaso Dorigo, an experimenter at the University of Padua in Italy, doubts that the LHC will find evidence of supersymmetry, a theoretical scheme that predicts a massive "superpartner" for every known particle in physicists 'current "standard model."
WordPress.com News 2008
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This theory suggests that every fundamental particle has a "superpartner" with a slightly different spin.
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Supersymmetry solves this problem by providing a “superpartner” (the “stop quark”) which cancels the interaction with the top and keeps the higgs light.
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The existence of the superpartner to the Higgs and the fermion field at about the same mass scale results in the cancellation of these divergences.
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Physicists also hope to find evidence for new properties of nature, such as supersymmetry -- the theory that every particle has an undiscovered "superpartner."
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Last night before going to bed people here had me somewhat convinced that maybe there was more of a possibility of some weak kind of string theory prediction about ratios of superpartner masses than I had thought possible.
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The ‘try to compute the superpartner mass spectrum’ part of string phenomenology is a relatively recent development, from 2005 onwards.
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For any values of the superpartner parameters, I surely would start taking a lot more interest in the details of the various supersymmetry breaking schemes out there.
deinonychus commented on the word superpartner
In particle physics, a superpartner (also sparticle) is hypothetical elementary particle. Supersymmetry is one of the synergistic theories in current high-energy physics which predicts the existence of these "shadow" particles.
The word superpartner is a portmanteau of the words supersymmetry and partner (sparticle is a portmanteau of supersymmetry and particle).
(Wikipedia)
January 18, 2012
Wordplayer commented on the word superpartner
Thanks deinonychus! I can add it too my particularly-interesting list!
January 19, 2012