New discovery by LHC casts doubt on Supersymmetry

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23431797

Ultra-rare decay confirmed in LHC

Scientists have confirmed one of the rarest phenomena of decay in particle physics, found about three times in every billion collisions at the LHCb.

They observed a rare transformation of one subatomic particle into another for the first time.

The way this unfolds casts doubt on versions of the theory of physics known as Supersymmetry (Susy)......

Wikipedia page on supersymmetry

I'm busy at the moment, don't have time for deep reading but figured I'd share the sources with you guys if you want to delve into it.

 

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Strange Quark and Bottom anti-quark or a Bottom quark and a strange anti-quark can spontaneously change into two muons. the frequency of this occurring was found to be too low for super-symmetry to be likely.

 

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So it turns out Susy (supersymmetry) has been on it's way out of favor since the LHC has been pumping out data. There were several things that Susy supporters predicted we would find using the LHC, and none of them have come to fruition. I found quite a few articles and blogs about it, this one is from a couple months ago, but seems to have some good thinking and explanations. I'll come back and read in depth later, but just from scanning it looks like a wonderful overview of the subject.


The Rise and Fall of Supersymmetry

Of course it was published before the latest discovery which seems to really close the door on Susy.

 

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does string theory fall under SuSy?

 

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does string theory fall under SuSy?

I don't think so, it's the opposite, susy falls under string theory. So within string theory susy worked as an answer to certain questions, but string theory in no way relies on susy. So if susy is disproven string theory lives on. But susy being bunk kills the leading answer to what dark matter is.