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The particle's existence was confirmed in 2012 by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland.

However, in more than 10 years of observations there has been no evidence to support this idea, even using the Large Hadron Collider as some had hoped.

“This class of ideas has become less popular because when we turned on the Large Hadron Collider, we did not see evidence of supersymmetry,” Slatyer told Salon in a video call.

The scientists started by analyzing data from proton-proton collisions at Europe's Large Hadron Collider, but they also wanted to look at the "cleaner" data produced by electron-proton collisions.

Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.