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Supersymmetry wimps out?

Supersymmetric particles are prime candidates to make up the dark matter of the Universe — yet the lack of evidence for them so far from the Large Hadron Collider could force a rethink.

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Merle, A., Ohlsson, T. Supersymmetry wimps out?. Nature Phys 8, 584–586 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2382

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