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Chargino

The chargino is a hypothetical supersymmetric particle. It refers to the mass eigenstates of a charged superpartner, i.e. any new electrically charged fermion (with spin 1/2) predicted by supersymmetry. They are linear combinations of the wino and charged higgsinos.

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