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Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in particle physics that proposes a type of symmetry between two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons, which carry forces, and fermions, which make up matter. According to supersymmetry, each particle from one group would have a corresponding partner in the other group, known as a superpartner, with similar physical properties but differing in spin by a half-unit. This concept extends the Standard Model of particle physics, which successfully describes three of the four fundamental forces in the universe, by potentially solving several unresolved issues, such as the nature of dark matter and the hierarchy problem related to the mass of the Higgs boson. Although elegant and promising, supersymmetry has not yet been experimentally confirmed, and searches for superpartners, such as at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have so far not yielded positive results, making it a focal point of both theoretical study and experimental investigation in the field of high-energy physics.