Definition of supersymmetry in English:
supersymmetry
noun suːpəˈsɪmɪtriˌso͞opərˈsimitrē
mass nounPhysics A very general type of mathematical symmetry which relates fermions and bosons.
Example sentencesExamples
- This symmetry between forces and matter is called supersymmetry.
- With supergavity, we have the interesting possibility of breaking supersymmetry through gravitational couplings.
- Uniting these two different symmetries is highly nontrivial and leads us directly to supersymmetry and superstrings.
- When supersymmetry is broken, the fermions and bosons don't exactly match any more, the cancellation doesn't occur any more.
- For a long time the only known example of a theory in which this cancellation takes place was supersymmetry.
Derivatives
adjective
Physics Heterotic string theories are supersymmetric string theories living in ten spacetime dimensions.
Example sentencesExamples
- In supersymmetric theories all bosons have a fermionic superpartner and vice versa.
- Particle physicists tend to think that dark matter could consist of supersymmetric particles that are very heavy but couple very weakly to the particles observed in accelerators now.
- One of the reasons particle and string physicists have liked supersymmetric theories is that they predict zero total vacuum energy, because the fermion and boson vacuum energies cancel each other out.
- In little-Higgs theories this symmetry, the analogue of symmetry between bosons and fermions in supersymmetric theories, is a so-called nonlinearly realized symmetry.