Appendix:Supersymmetric particles

This is a list of names for supersymmetric particles (sparticles). Supersymmetry is a theory where every elementary particle has a supersymmetric partner with identical properties other than mass and spin, doubling the number of elementary particles predicted to exist in the universe. Superparticles are required to exist for many grand unified theories and superstring theories.

On naming: A fermion is any particle (supersymmetric or nonsupersymmetric) with half-integer spin, whereas bosons have integer spin. The superpartners of fermions are bosons with the names of their fermionic counterparts prefixed with "s-" (e.g. sfermions are scalar bosons) and the superpartners of bosons are fermions with the names of their bosonic counterparts suffixed with "-ino" (e.g. bosinos are fermions). Supersymmetric particle symbols are displayed with a diacritic tilde on top (e.g. "ẽ" for selectron).

Collective names for supersymmetric particles

• sparticle, superparticle/superpartner, supersymmetric particle/partner
  • bosino, superboson
    • gaugino
    • goldstino, supersymmetric goldstone, supersymmetric Goldstone particle
  • sfermion, superfermion
    • slepton, superlepton, supersymmetric/scalar lepton
      • sneutrino, superneutrino, supersymmetric/scalar neutrino
    • squark, superquark, supersymmetric/scalar quark

Individual names for supersymmetric particles

Bosons

• charm squark, supersymmetric/scalar charm quark
• electron sneutrino, selectron sneutrino, supersymmetric/scalar electron neutrino
• muon sneutrino, smuon sneutrino, supersymmetric/scalar muon neutrino
• selectron, supersymmetric/scalar electron
• sbottom, bottom squark, supersymmetric/scalar bottom quark
• sdown, down squark, supersymmetric/scalar down quark
• smuon, supersymmetric/scalar muon
• stauon, supersymmetric/scalar tauon
• stop, top squark, supersymmetric/scalar top quark
• strange squark, supersymmetric/scalar strange quark
• sup, up squark, supersymmetric/scalar up quark
• tauon sneutrino, stauon sneutrino, supersymmetric/scalar tauon neutrino

Fermions

• axino, supersymmetric axion
• bino, B bosino, supersymmetric B particle
• chargino
• dilatino, supersymmetric dilaton
• gluino, supersymmetric gluon
• gravitino, supersymmetric graviton
• higgsino, supersymmetric higgson, supersymmetric Higgs particle
• neutralino
• photino, supersymmetric photon
• wino, W bosino, supersymmetric W particle
• xino, X bosino, supersymmetric X particle
• yino, Y bosino, supersymmetric Y particle
• zino, Z bosino, supersymmetric Z particle