The bosons are force-carrying particles that facilitate the rest of the interactions.

On the other hand, if the force-carrying particles have no mass of their own, the forces will be long range.

It affects all matter particles, but not force-carrying particles.

The force-carrying particles are not themselves building blocks.

This is the gauge boson (force-carrying particle) of weak force.

The force-carrying particle then collides with another matter particle and is absorbed.

It is an important property of the force-carrying particles that they do not obey the exclusion principle.

However, if the force-carrying particles have a high mass, it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance.

They may sometimes be emitted when matter particles interact with each other by exchanging virtual force-carrying particles.

Like all fermions (non force-carrying particles), Up quarks have a spin of 1/2.