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What is actually being conserved? I've calculated it for the Wess-Zumino model but I still have no idea what is actually being conserved due to Noether's Theorem.

There is already a similar question, What conserved quantity does Supersymmetry imply? But the answers don't actually say if there is anything physically conserved.

I have heard that the number of fermions is kept equal to the number of bosons, but is this not a fact that susy requires? I feel like it doesn't actually come from the charge itself.

In Qmechanic's answer it is said that "the experimental consequences of a conserved supercharge are extracted by other indirect means." What are these means?

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    $\begingroup$ Possible duplicates: What conserved quantity does Supersymmetry imply? and links therein. $\endgroup$
    – Qmechanic ♦
    Commented May 10, 2019 at 10:59
  • $\begingroup$ You "feel" wrong. For a given mass, an unbroken supercharge preserves the perfect match between bosonic and fermionic d.o.f. The vanishing difference of the two is what is "physically conserved". $\endgroup$
    – Cosmas Zachos
    Commented Jun 18, 2019 at 18:29

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