Particle Data Group

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The Particle Data Group is an international collaboration of particle physicists that compiles and reanalyzes published results related to the properties of particles and fundamental interactions. It also publishes reviews of theoretical results that are phenomologically relevant, including those in related fields such as cosmology. The Particle Data Group currently publishes the Review of Particle Physics and its pocket version, the Particle Data Booklet, which are printed biennially as books, and updated annually via the World Wide Web.

The Particle Data Group also publishes the Pocket Diary for Physicists, a calendar with the dates of key international conferences and contact information of major high energy physics institutions. The Particle Data Group further maintains the standard numbering scheme for particles in event generators, in association with the event generator authors.

Contents 1 Review of Particle Physics 1.1 Past editions of Review of Particle Physics 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Review of Particle Physics

The Review of Particle Physics^[1] (formely Review of Particle Properties, Data on Particles and Resonant States, and Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States) is a voluminous, 1200 page reference work which summarizes particle properties and reviews the current status of elementary particle physics, general relativity and big-bang cosmology. Usually singled out for citation analysis, it is currently the most cited article in high energy physics, being cited more than 1600 times annually in the scientific literature^[2].

The Review is currently divided into 3 sections:

• Particle Physics Summary Tables – Brief tables of particles: gauge and higgs bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, baryons, constraints for the search for hypothetical particles and violation of physical laws.
• Reviews, Tables and Plots – Review of fundamental concepts from mathematics and statistics, table of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, periodic table of elements, table of electronic configuration of the elements, brief table of material properties, review of current status in the fields of Standard Model, Cosmology, and experimental method of particle physics, and with tables of fundamental physical and astronomical constants (many from CODATA and the Astronomical Almanac).
• Particle Listings – Comprehensive version of the Particle Physics Summary Tables, with all significant measurements fully referenced.

A condensed version of the Review, with the Summary Tables, a significantly shortened Reviews, Tables and Plots, and without the Particle Listings, is available as a 300 page, pocket-sized Particle Data Booklet.

The history of Review of Particle Physics can be traced back to the 1957 article Hyperons and Heavy Mesons (Systematics and Decay) by Murray Gell-Mann and Arthur H Rosenfeld^[3], and the unpublished update tables for its data with the title Data for Elementary Particle Physics (University of California Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-8030)^[4] that were circulated before the actual publication of the original article. In 1963, Matts Ross independently published a compilation Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States^[5]. On his suggestion, the two publication were merged a year later into the 1964 Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States.

The publication underwent three renaming thereafter: 1965 into Data on Particles and Resonant States, 1970 into Review of Particle Properties, and 1996 into the present form Review of Particle Physics. Starting with 1972, the Review no longer appear exclusively on Reviews of Modern Physics of the American Physical Society, but alternately also by Reed Elsevier's Physics Letters B and other journals.

[edit] Past editions of Review of Particle Physics

Year	Title	Reference
1957–1963	Hyperons and Heavy Mesons (Systematics and Decay)	M. Gell-Mann & A. H. Rosenfeld, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Sci. 7, 407 (1957).
	Data for Elementary Particle Physics	University of California Radiation Laboratory Technical Report UCRL-8030 (unpublished).
	Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States, November 1963; Tables of Elementary Particles and Resonant States	M. Roos, Nucl. Phys. 52, 1 (1964); M. Roos, Rev. Mod. Phys. 35, 314 (1963).
1964	Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States	A. H. Rosenfeld et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 977 (1964).
1965	Data on Particles and Resonant States	A. H. Rosenfeld et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 37, 633 (1965).
1967	Data on Particles and Resonant States	A. H. Rosenfeld et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 39, 1 (1967).
1968	Data on Particles and Resonant States	A. H. Rosenfeld et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 40, 77 (1968).
1969	Data on Particles and Resonant States	Particle Data Group: N. Barash-Schmidt et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 41, 109 (1969).
1970	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: A. Barbaro-Galtieri et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 42, 87 (1970).
1971	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: A. Rittenberg et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 43, S1 (1970).
1972	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: A. Barbaro-Galtieri et al., Phys. Lett. B 39, 1 (1972).
1973	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: T. A. Lasinski et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 45, S1 (1973).
1974	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: A. Barbaro-Galtieri et al., Phys. Lett. B 50, 1 (1974).
1975	Review of Particle Properties: Supplement to 1974 edition	Particle Data Group: A. Barbaro-Galtieri et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 47, 535 (1975).
1976	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: T. G. Trippe et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 48, S1 (1976).
1977	New Particle Searches and Discoveries: A Supplement to the 1976 Edition of "Review of Particle Properties"	Particle Data Group: C. Bricman et al. Phys. Letts. B 68, 1 (1978).
1978	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: C. Bricman et al. Phys. Letts. B 75, 1 (1978).
1980	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: R. L. Kelly et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, S1 (1980).
1982	Review of Particle Properties	M. Roos et al., Phys. Lett. B 111, 1 (1982).
1984	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: C. G. Wohl et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, S1 (1986).
1986	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: M. Aguilar-Benítez et al., Phys. Lett. B 170, 1 (1986).
1988	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: G. P. Yost et al., Phys. Lett. B 204, 1 (1988).
1990	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: J. J. Hernández et al., Phys. Lett. B 239, 1 (1990).
1992	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: K. Hikasa et al., Phys. Rev. D 45, S1 (1992).
1994	Review of Particle Properties	Particle Data Group: L. Montanet et al., Phys. Rev. D 50, 1173 (1994).
1996	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: R. M. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev. D 54, 1 (1996).
1998	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: C. Caso et al., Eur. Phys. J. C 3, 1 (1998).
2000	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: D. E. Groom et al., Eur. Phys. J., C 15, 1 (2000).
2002	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: K. Hagiwara et al., Phys. Rev. D 66, 010001 (2002).
2004	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: S. Eidelman et al., Phys. Lett. B 591, 1 (2004).
2006	Review of Particle Physics	Particle Data Group: W.-M. Yao et al., J. Phys. G 33, 1 (2006).

[edit] References

1. ^ Particle Data Group: W.-M. Yao et al., J. Phys G 33, 1 (2006).
2. ^ Top Cited HEP Articles from SPIRES
3. ^ M. Gell-Mann & A. H. Rosenfeld, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Sci. 7, 407 (1957).
4. ^ A. H. Rosenfeld et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 977 (1964); A. H. Rosenfeld, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Sci. 25, 555 (1975).
5. ^ M. Roos, Nucl. Phys. 52, 1 (1964); M. Roos, Rev. Mod. Phys. 35, 314 (1963).

[edit] See also

• CODATA
• Landolt-Börnstein

[edit] External links

• Particle Data Group & WWW edition of Review of Particle Physics
• 2006 Review of Particle Physics in printed layout, from the Institute of Physics
• Photo of the 2004 Review of Particle Physics
• First edition of the wallet card from the Particle Data Group, 1958