X boson

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This article is about new kind of elementary particle. In condensed matter physics, the X boson method refers to a treatment of a condensed matter system using Hubbard operators which express all local correlations of the system.
X boson
Composition: Elementary particle
Family: Boson
Group: Gauge boson
Status: Hypothetical
Symbol: X
No. of types: 6
Mass: ≈ 1015 GeV/c2
Decay particle: two quarks or antiquark and antilepton
Electric charge: +4/3 e
Spin: 1

In particle physics, an X boson is new elementary particle analogous to the W boson and Z boson, but one that corresponds to a new type of force, such as the forces predicted by grand unified theory. The interactions arising due to these X bosons are responsible for new phenomena such as the proton decay. X bosons have 4/3 elementary electric charge and net color charge.

X boson have following decay modes:

  • X \rightarrow \bar q + \bar l
  • X \rightarrow q + q

Where q is quark and l is lepton. In this reactions both lepton number and baryon number are not conserved, but B-L is. Different branching ratio between X boson and its antiparticle (such as with K-meson) would explain baryogenesis.

A related type of new particles is called Y boson.


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