gauge boson
force carrier, a bosonic particle that carries any of the fundamental interactions of nature, commonly called forces
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A gauge boson is a type of particle that carries the fundamental forces of nature, such as electromagnetism and gravity. These particles are essential to how forces work at the most basic level—they're the messengers that transmit forces between other particles.
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The Standard Model of elementary particles, with the gauge bosons in the fourth column in red In particle physics, a gauge boson is a bosonic elementary particle that acts as the force carrier for elementary fermions. Elementary particles whose interactions are described by a gauge theory interact with each other by the exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles.
Photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons are gauge bosons. All known gauge bosons have a spin of 1 and therefore are vector bosons. For comparison, the Higgs boson has spin zero and the hypothetical graviton has a spin of 2.