Desperately seeking SUSY

Went to the lecture today:

http://lotus.phys.northwestern.edu/~gshau/Home/NU-HEP_seminar.html

Appears there is a bump in the data around 125 GeV where there is some hope of finding the Higgs boson. Also, while there is no indication that the Higgs is a scalar boson, that is what most believe, so I should probably stop calling a vector boson. Vector vs scalar, meaning that it has only one degree of freedom, as in it doesn't have spin or charge.
 
BTW, I should add that if the Higgs is at 125 GeV, then 2012 will be an exciting year because it will likely be discovered and announced.
 
Quote from Buckstops:

Forget SUSY.. she aint home

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

The LHC has done an impressive job of investigating and leaving in tatters the SUSY/extra-dimensional speculative universe that has dominated particle theory for much of the last thirty years, and this is likely to be one of its main legacies. These fields will undoubtedly continue to play a large role in particle theory, no matter how bad the experimental situation gets, as their advocates argue “Never, never, never give up!”, but fewer and fewer people will take them seriously. As always seemed likely, the big mystery the LHC will solve will be that of the Higgs: is it really there, and if so does it behave as the Standard Model predicts, or does it do something more interesting? Unfortunately we’re going to have to wait a while longer for more news on that front.
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I suspect that the next great new hope will come from theory and not experiment, and I think this is likely where it comes from:

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The [lightest] neutralino would probably be the biggest surprise discovery at LHC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralino

It would prove the existance of SUSY, and it is [one of the] theorized non-baryonic particles that comprise dark matter.

The reason we suspect that SUSY exists is the properties of the neutralino perfectly solve many of the outstanding problems of the standard model. More, it demands them.
 
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

3-Sigma that the Higgs is bagged. Can't cal it a discovery until it is 5-Sigma.

Monumental. But the energy of it means that it is a family of Higgs and not a single particle. Great time to become a theoretical or experimental physicist.

People are asking how this will affect them on a day-to-day basis, and the replies are it won't at all. Don't believe it. It is very possible that this will eventually lead to (and may be the to) future technology we can't even imagine yet. Granted, it may take 100 years, but so what?

PS, sorry it is a 5-Sigma event so it is official.
 
Best introduction to the Higgs mechanism, period:

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Susskind makes a couple of mistakes, so double check everything. But the essence of the talk is phenomenal.
 
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