Re: W and Z ~ Created from whole cloth?

Now lets consider the W and Z:
1) there are two nucleons and no W and Z particles;
2) the two nucleons come close enough for W and Z interaction;
3) ?
4) ?

That's way too ambiguous.  It's quarks and leptons that emit and
absorb W and Zs.

A) What does, say, a proton lose upon emitting a W or Z particle?

A proton is two up quarks and a down quark.  An up may emit a W+ and
become a down.  Or a down may emit a W- and become an up.  And either
may emit a Z without changing identity at all.  The Z is more or less
just a heavy photon.

B) What does, say, a proton gain upon absorbing a W or Z particle?

An up may absorb a W- and become a down.  Or a down may absorb a W+
and become an up.  Just as in emission, either may absorb a Z without
changing identity.

C) What does the W or Z particle transmit between nucleons?

The Ws and Z carry the weak interaction between quarks and leptons.

Is it mass, energy, or mass-energy as in the case of the photon?

The ohoton has no mass.  But, due to E = mc^2, whenever energy is lost
or gained, mass is lost or gained also.

Does the emitting nucleon lose mass, energy or mass-energy as in the case of
the emitting atom with respect to photon exhange (energy state of electron
falls, for instance).

Anything losing energy will also lose mass

Is the weak "force" actually a force (at short enough range)? Will
two neutrinos, for example, either attract or repel each other if they
get close enough? (assume for simplicity they don't have enough
energy to do something like create an e+e- pair and they actually get
close enough for the weak force to have an effect) How about a
neutrino and antineutrino, or neutrino of a different "flavor"? A
neutrino and an electron? Is there such a thing as a weak "charge"?
If so, how many kinds of "charge" (electromagnetism has 2, +/-,
gravitation just has mass, I guess the strong has 3, r/g/b)
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