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X and Y bosons
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In particle physics, the X and Y bosons (sometimes

collectively called "X bosons"[1]) are hypothetical
elementary particles analogous to the W and Z bosons,
but corresponding to a new type of force predicted by the
GeorgiGlashow model, a grand unified theory.

X and Y bosons
Composition

Elementary particle

Statistics

Bosonic

Status

Hypothetical

Details

Types

12

Mass

1015 GeV/c2

The X and Y bosons couple quarks to leptons, allowing

violation of the conservation of baryon number, and thus
permitting proton decay.

Decays into

X: two quarks, or one

antiquark and one charged
antilepton
Y: two quarks, or one
antiquark and one charged
antilepton, or one antiquark
and one antineutrino

Electric charge

X: +43 e

An X boson would have the following decay modes:[2]

Xu+u
+

Xe +d
where the two decay products in each process have
opposite chirality, u is an up quark, d is a down quark
+

and e is a positron.
A Y boson would have the following decay

modes:[2]

Ye +u
Yd+u
Y d + e
where the first decay product in each process has lefthanded chirality and the second has right-handed

Y: +13 e
Color charge

triplet or antitriplet

Spin

Spin states

Weak isospin
projection

X: +12
Y: 12

Weak hypercharge 53
BL

2
3

chirality and e is an electron antineutrino.

Similar decay products exist for the other quark-lepton generations
In these reactions, neither the lepton number (L) nor the baryon number (B) 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.

See also
BL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_and_Y_bosons

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Grand unification theory

Proton decay
W' and Z' bosons
Leptoquark

References
1. ^ Ta-Pei Cheng; Ling-Fong Li (1983). Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics. Oxford University Press.
p. 437. ISBN 0-19-851961-3.
2. ^ a b Ta-Pei Cheng; Ling-Fong Li (1983). Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics. Oxford University
Press. p. 442. ISBN 0-19-851961-3.

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