Of Symmetries Good and Bad, Seen and Unseen

Sunil Somalwar
Rutgers University

Last year's Nobel Prize in the Ultrahigh Energy Parallel Universe
went to a low-temperature physicist for discovering that the
selectron, hitherto presumed to be massless, has a tiny mass. 
Selectron's superpartner, the electron, still appears to be massless, 
but this electron-selectron mass difference indicates that 
Supersymmetry is broken at low energies. Global Cooling experts find 
a vastly different low-energy world when they allow supersymmetry 
violation in their models.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth where the electron mass is known to a part 
in ten million, we are still looking for hints of supersymmetry which is 
expected to play a very significant role as the universe cooled after 
the big bang. I will describe the most sensitive supersymmetry search so
far, carried out by our Rutgers team at Fermilab.