Text: gauge boson - a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles boson - any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons gluon - a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks gravitons - a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles intermediate vector bosons - a gauge boson that mediates weak interactions between particles photon - a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle

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