Review of Particle Physics

Abstract

Abstract The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,324 new measurements from 878 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as Higgs Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Among the 120 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised, including a new review on High Energy Soft QCD and Diffraction and one on the Determination of CKM Angles from B Hadrons. The Review is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 includes the Summary Tables and 98 review articles. Volume 2 consists of the Particle Listings and contains also 22 reviews that address specific aspects of the data presented in the Listings. The complete Review (both volumes) is published online on the website of the Particle Data Group (pdg.lbl.gov) and in a journal. Volume 1 is available in print as the PDG Book. A Particle Physics Booklet with the Summary Tables and essential tables, figures, and equations from selected review articles is available in print and as a web version optimized for use on phones as well as an Android app.

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Affiliated Institutions

• University of Wisconsin–Madison US
• Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie FR
• National Institute for Subatomic Physics NL
• University of Virginia US
• Brookhaven National Laboratory US
• Monash University AU
• Universität Hamburg DE
• Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences RU
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México MX
• University of Amsterdam NL
• Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies DE
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I IT
• Michigan State University US
• University of Rome Tor Vergata IT
• Northwestern University US
• University of Minnesota US
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE
• Instituto de Física Corpuscular ES
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg DE
• Imperial College London GB
• European Organization for Nuclear Research CH
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova IT
• Obayashi (Japan) JP
• Université Paris-Saclay FR
• Max Planck Institute for Physics DE
• Argonne National Laboratory US
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY DE
• University of Zurich CH
• University of Cambridge GB
• University of Liverpool GB
• University of Oxford GB
• Institute for High Energy Physics RU
• University of Chicago US
• University of Pittsburgh US
• ETH Zurich CH
• Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers FR
• University of California, San Diego US
• Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques FR
• Sapienza University of Rome IT
• High Energy Accelerator Research Organization JP
• Royal Holloway University of London GB
• International Center for Advanced Studies AR
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli IT
• Forschungszentrum Jülich DE
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey US
• The University of Tokyo JP
• Tohoku University JP
• University of Warwick GB
• Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics AT
• Heidelberg University DE
• University of California, Berkeley US
• University College Dublin IE
• Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules FR
• University of Padua IT
• King's College London GB
• Universitat de València ES
• University of Bonn DE
• Northern Illinois University US
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory US
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE
• CEA Paris-Saclay FR
• National University of General San Martín AR
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ES
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign US
• Austrian Academy of Sciences AT
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati IT
• University of Delaware US
• Instituto de Física de Cantabria ES
• Nagoya University JP
• University of Oklahoma US
• University of Helsinki FI
• University of Sussex GB
• Universitat de Barcelona ES
• Cornell University US
• Durham University GB
• Kyung Hee University KR
• Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives FR
• Florida State University US
• University of Tübingen DE
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory US
• Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute RU
• Tokyo Metropolitan University JP
• Helmholtz Institute Mainz DE
• University of Colorado Boulder US
• Novosibirsk State University RU
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility US
• University of Maryland, College Park US
• Tufts University US
• University of Louisville US
• Tel Aviv University IL
• University of California, Santa Cruz US
• Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics RU
• The Ohio State University US
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz DE
• Johns Hopkins University US
• Stony Brook University US

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