nLab gaugino

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Context

Fields and quanta

fields and particles in particle physics

and in the standard model of particle physics:

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks (qq)
up-typeup quark (uu)charm quark (cc)top quark (tt)
down-typedown quark (dd)strange quark (ss)bottom quark (bb)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonslight mesons:
pion (udu d)
ρ-meson (udu d)
ω-meson (udu d)
f1-meson
a1-meson
strange-mesons:
ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s),
kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s)
eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s)

charmed heavy mesons:
D-meson (uc u c, dcd c, scs c)
J/ψ-meson (cc¯c \bar c)
bottom heavy mesons:
B-meson (qbq b)
ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b)
baryonsnucleons:
proton (uud)(u u d)
neutron (udd)(u d d)

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

in grand unified theory

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

sfermions:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

Super-Geometry

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Idea

In quantum field theory the term gaugino denotes a field that is a superpartner of a gauge boson. This appears in super Yang-Mills theory. For instance the partner of a gluon in the MSSM is called a gluino, and so on.

In terms of Chern-Weil theory/differential cohomology we have that

Experiment

Experimental exclusion bounds of gluino rest masses due to the LHC experiment excludes gluinos/squarks of mass below about 3-4 TeV (Particle Data Group Review 17, figure 113.2 and 113.9):

LHCSuperpartnerMassExclusion2017.png

References

Theoretical discussion includes

  • F. Gieres, Geometry of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories: Including an Introduction to BRS Differential Algebras and Anomalies Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 302 (1998)

Experimental exclusion bounds are discussed iin

See also

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