Photino - Definition and Overview

A photino is a subatomic particle, the fermion WIMP superpartner of the photon predicted by supersymmetry. Photinos have a lepton number 0, baryon number 0, and spin 1/2. With an R-parity of -1 it is a possible candidate for dark matter. It mixes with the superpartners of the Z boson (zino) and the neutral higgs (higgsino) to the neutralino.

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Fermions : Quarks \| Leptons
Gauge bosons : Photon \| W⁺, W^- and Z⁰ bosons \| Gluons
Not yet observed
Higgs boson \| Graviton
Supersymmetric Partners : Neutralinos \| Charginos \| Gravitino \| Gluinos \| Squarks \| Sleptons

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