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  • noun physics The superpartner of the photon.

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Examples

  • No, wait, Baxter did that with his "photino birds".

    A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today 2009

  • It's one of the particles that are being mixed with others (photino, zino) to obtain the neutralinos.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • So, for example, the supersymmetric partner of the photon, the photino, this would spin at half the rate of the photon.

    Cosmic Log 2008

  • So, the selectron, for example, would have an electric charge, and it would couple to the photino in the same way that the electron couples to the photon - and that's the way that electromagnetic radiation works, and TV and computers and so on.

    Cosmic Log 2008

  • A: Supersymmetry is an idea according to which in parallel to the particles that were made of, the electron for example, that goes around an atom, or the photon, which causes light, in parallel to those particles there would be other particles, call it the selectron, call it the photino, which have identical interactions.

    Cosmic Log 2008

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