Y boson
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| Y boson | |
| Composition: | Elementary particle |
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| Family: | Boson |
| Group: | Gauge boson |
| Status: | Hypothetical |
| Symbol: | Y |
| No. of types: | 6 |
| Mass: | ≈ 1015 GeV/c2 |
| Electric charge: | +1/3 e |
| Spin: | 1 |
In particle physics, the Y boson, like the X boson, is a very massive hypothetical elementary particle, similar to the W and Z bosons of the Standard Model.
The properties of the Y boson vary according to the grand unification theory in which the Y bosons are predicted. In most such theories, the Y boson couples quarks to leptons, allowing violation of the conservation of baryon number and thus proton decay.
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