The standard model of particle physics predicts subtle violations of charge - parity symmetry and proposes an EDM that is below the sensitivity of any currently achievable experiment.
But over the past year, physicists at CERN have found that the Higgs boson is acting exactly as the incomplete
standard model of particle physics predicts, leaving us with no clues about how to extend it.
Not exact matches
The
Standard Model of physics predicts that all
particles have something
of a twin; a matching
particle that has mirror properties, such as an opposite charge.
The mathematical symmetries
of the resulting equations
predict three families
of particles, as described by the
standard model of physics, though the third family would behave a bit differently.
«Its existence was
predicted by the
standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse
of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that
model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual
models of the way the world or the universe works and test those
models against the observations and see the extent to which they can
predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the
models.
They hope to firm up tantalizing hints from an earlier incarnation
of the experiment, which suggested that the
particle is ever so slightly more magnetic than
predicted by the prevailing
standard model of particle physics.
This pokes a sizable hole in the prevailing theory
of particle physics, the
Standard Model, which
predicts that neutrinos have no mass and can not change type.
The first is that WIMPs are a natural consequence
of the most popular extensions to the
Standard Model of particle physics, which
predicts their production shortly after the big bang.
If the
standard model of particle physics has correctly
predicted its characteristics, gathering enough data to find the Higgs should take about two more years, says Albert de Roeck, deputy spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC.
Some have pointed out that a value
of 125 GeV would be good news for supersymmetry, a theory that
predicts that each
particle would have a heavier partner known as a superparticle (at least for
particles within the framework
of the
Standard Model of particle physics, the currently accepted description
of the subatomic world).
The Higgs boson was the final piece
of the
standard model of particle physics, which catalogs the universe's
particles and forces and
predicts how they interact with each other.
Such a
particle would be «much more thrilling than the Higgs boson», says Christoffer Petersson, a theoretical physicist at Chalmers University
of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden — the Higgs was already
predicted by the
standard model of particle physics when it was discovered in 2012.
Supersymmetry
predicts that there are more massive «super partners» for every known
particle, and is an extension
of the
Standard Model of particle physics, which governs our understanding
of the quantum world.