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Bosons are particles with integer spin which do not obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, therefore a number of them may occupy the same quantum state.

In general, all bosons can be classified as either mesons (composite particles) or gauge bosons (elementary bosons). Pions are examples of mesons, while photons are examples of gauge bosons.

Since the name "boson" applies to a number of particles there can be no answer to this question.

Bosons are part of 3 families of fundamental particles described by the Standard Model of quantum physics, and being fundamental means they have no known substructure - i.e., there isn'tanything smaller than a boson. (The same applies to quarks and leptons.)

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A gluon is smaller than a quark and it keeps quarks together. There are theories that there may be something smaller than a gluon but it is just a theory so for now there is none

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