Both particles have the similar role of bringing ordinary particles very close together within their spatially reduced metrics. The X compresses quark triplets, the W incorporates baryons, mesons, or leptons which need alternative charge carriers into complexes with leptonic particle-antiparticle pairs that can provide carrier leptons. Similarly, the Z brings particles so close together that if they are compatible, they can swap identities. In the special case of proton or leptoquark decay, both the X and the W must act together. The action of the asymmetric field reveals the information content of the symmetric field.
Baryons consist of three quarks, mesons of a quark-antiquark pair.
Hadrons are the class of particles containing quarks, that is, the baryons and mesons. Baryons as a class all carry one and the same identity charge, whose explicit form is the leptoquark neutrino. The leptons and leptoquark are the only known massive elementary particles. The quarks occur only as triplets confined to baryons or as quark-antiquark pairs in mesons. Quarks and leptons are produced by the decay of the leptoquark.