The reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.

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The complexity of the reaction aggressively tests the standard model.

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Gary Burton and Chick Corea

Vibes and piano keyboards: mallets and fingers move hammers to strike.

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Squarks, photinos, selectrons, neutralinos. These are just a few types of supersymmetric particles, a special brand of particle that may be created when the world's most powerful atom smasher goes online this spring.

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Excitement is building among high-energy physicists as construction in Europe of a huge new particle accelerator nears completion, with the first experiments scheduled for next year.

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A particle that may mediate the rare decay of a Sigma-plus hyperon appears to have close affiliations with a light Higgs boson found in one supersymmetric model—an interpretation suggesting unambiguous evidence for physics beyond the standard model (SM), scientists say.

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The Higgs boson is infamous as the only particle predicted by the standard model of physics that remains undetected. In theory, every other particle in the universe gets its mass by interacting with an all-pervading field created by Higgs bosons.

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