supersymmetry

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Definition of supersymmetry

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
    “We suggest therefore that the expression "super-symmetry" might be more appropriate for the global concept and reserve the word "gauge" for local symmetries.”
    “Supersymmetry is the concept that known particles – such as electrons, quarks and photons – have a heavier and as-yet-undetected "superpartner".”

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Etymology

From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.

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