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Science 11 October 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5285, pp. 179 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5285.179
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Research News

James Glanz

As 1996 began, particle physics had been energized by a handful of results that standard theories of particles and forces couldn't readily explain, including a bizarre blip in a detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and inexplicable decay rates for the fundamental particles called Z bosons at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva. But with new data and analysis, both anomalies have faded. That comes as a disappointment to theorists who had hoped that the mysterious events were the first glimpse of a more encompassing theory of particles and forces known as supersymmetry.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)