Supersymmetry

[Autumnlicious]

While I was away last week Columbia was hosting the Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) conference here on campus. Talks are available here. Matt Strassler posts about some of the new Higgs results, which basically see some of the inconsistencies in Higgs mass measurements disappearing. Right now everything is quite consistent with a pure Standard Model Higgs.

REF: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6935

The only inclination for super symmetry is a combination of graph finagling and a mistaken idea that it would be nice for things to be symmetric.

As we can see from CP violation, our idea of symmetry might very well be a flawed concept.

For SUSY, every testable prediction at CERN (and the lower energy collider institutions) has come up null (i.e. we don't see anything at all) and there appears to be mounting evidence there is "just one" Higgs boson. Yet SUSY proponents, like their String Theory brethren, seem more than happy to whip up yet another version -- after a while it strikes me as moving the proverbial goal posts.

Also, why the hell does every time I look into SUSY, it seems that Ned Flanders came up with the names? Neutralinos? Charginos? Woof.