(02-05-2014, 12:43 AM)Dalex Wrote: I should've posted my source earlier I guess http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.6940.pdf
That paper doesn't rule out all monopoles with a mass < 3500GeV. It rules out monopoles with a mass < 3500 GeV produced from hadronic jets.
You do realize that particle interactions are highly specific? QCD interactions are governed by the CKM matrix, for example.
These results say nothing about cosmological relic monopoles, monopole-axion interactions, or other such cases.
(02-05-2014, 12:43 AM)Dalex Wrote: I didn't say that SUSY is completely ruled out all I said was that so far none of the particles predicted by it and not standart model were found.
That doesn't mean they're not there but it's heavily constraining and theory requires some fine tuning to account for that.
In addition LUX has not found any neutralinos http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.8214v1.pdf so it doesn't look good for SUSY on that front either.
I know folks that work on LUX. The 2013 run was an instrumentation/fine-tuning run. No one expects solid scientific data until the 2014 run at the earliest.