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X and Y bosons

X and Y Bosons
Composition:	Elementary particle
Family:	Boson
Group:	Gauge boson
Status:	Hypothetical
No. of types:	12
Mass:	≈ 10¹⁵ GeV/c²
Decay particle:	X: two quarks or antiquark and antilepton
Electric charge:	X:+4/3 e Y: +1/3 e
Color charge:	nonzero
Spin:	1

In particle physics, the X and Y bosons are hypothetical elementary particles analogous to the W and Z bosons, but corresponding to a new type of force, such as the forces predicted by grand unified theory.

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The properties of the bosons vary according to the grand unification theory in which they are predicted. In most such theories, the X and Y bosons couple quarks to leptons, allowing violation of the conservation of baryon number and thus proton decay.

An X boson would have the following decay modes:

$X \rightarrow \bar q + \bar l$
$X \rightarrow q + q$

Where q is a quark and l is a lepton. In these reactions, neither the lepton number nor the baryon number is conserved, but B−L is. Different branching ratios between the X boson and its antiparticle (as is the case with the K-meson) would explain baryogenesis.

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