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Science 21 December 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5551, pp. 2449 - 2451
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5551.2449b
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Sign of Supersymmetry Fades Away

Adrian Cho

A tantalizing hint of new elementary particles--which many physicists had interpreted as possible evidence of supersymmetry, a theory that predicts a much more massive partner for every type of particle known today--has vanished once physicists double-checked their math. The culprit: an extra minus sign in one of the calculations.

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