ATLAS Experiment releases new search for strong supersymmetry
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

New particles sensitive to the strong interaction might be produced in abundance in the proton-proton collisions generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - provided that they aren`t too heavy. These particles could be the partners of gluons and quarks predicted by supersymmetry (SUSY), a proposed extension of the Standard Model of particle physics that would expand its predictive power to include much higher energies. In the simplest scenarios, these `gluinos` and `squarks` would be produced in pairs, and decay directly into quarks and a new stable neutral particle (the `neutralino`), which would not interact with the ATLAS detector. The neutralino could be the main constituent of dark matter.