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Higgsino

noun

Meaning

  1. The superpartner of the Higgs boson.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Higgsino.

Etymology / origin

From Higgs + -ino; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs particle, the normal particle counterpart to the Higgsino supersymmetric counterpart particle.

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