# X and Y bosons

> charged massive gauge bosons in the SU(5) Georgi–Glashow grand unified model mediating proton decay, filling out the adjoint representation of SU(5) together with the gluon, the photon and the W and Z bosons

**Wikidata**: [Q1996385](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1996385)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_and_Y_bosons)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/x-and-y-bosons


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013