Consequently, there are as many gauge bosons as there are generators of the gauge field.
en.wikipedia.org It describes the strong, weak, and electromagnetic fundamental interactions, using mediating gauge bosons.
en.wikipedia.org Force particles, called gauge bosons "force carriers" or "messenger particles" of underlying fieldsinteract with matter particles, called fermions.
en.wikipedia.org The photon is the gauge boson for electromagnetism, and therefore all other quantum numbers of the photon (such as lepton number, baryon number, and flavour quantum numbers) are zero.
en.wikipedia.org In the case of local, dynamical symmetries, associated with every charge is a gauge field; when quantized, the gauge field becomes a gauge boson.
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