Sunday, January 13, 2013

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. Why is finding supersymmetric particles an important task for physicists to undertake?

2. What are some ways the heavier sparticles such as squarks can be detected? 

3. If the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is found to be too constrained by the Higgs mass, how can it be modified?

4. What theories, if any, can explain the Hierarchy Problem of the Standard Model besides supersymmetry?

5. If supersymmetric particles are found not to exist, how should physicists approach the vacuum energy problem?

6. What does a model of supersymmetry that can be spontaneously broken mean for our understanding of the vacuum energy?

7. How can existing dark matter detection experiments such as Ice Cube be better equipped to detect supersymmetric particles? 

8. If the Large Hadron Collider does not, even at its full power, discover supersymmetric particles, where do physicists go from there? 

9. How can theorists studying supersymmetry as we are now, without empirical evidence, avoid being "not even wrong?" 

10. How can Cold Dark Matter be described without the existence of supersymmetric particles? 

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