Review of Particle Physics

Abstract

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2658 new measurements from 644 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as Higgs bosons, heavy neutrinos, and supersymmetric particles. All the particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We also give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as the Standard Model, particle detectors, probability, and statistics. Among the 112 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on Heavy-Quark and Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, Neutrino Cross Section Measurements, Monte Carlo Event Generators, Lattice QCD, Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy, Top Quark, Dark Matter, Vcb & Vub, Quantum Chromodynamics, High-Energy Collider Parameters, Astrophysical Constants, Cosmological Parameters, and Dark Matter.
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\nA booklet is available containing the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions of some of the other sections of this full Review. All tables, listings, and reviews (and errata) are also available on the Particle Data Group website: http://pdg.lbl.gov/.
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\nThe 2012 edition of Review of Particle Physics is published for the Particle Data Group as article 010001 in volume 86 of Physical Review D.

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Affiliated Institutions

• University of California, Berkeley US
• University of Wisconsin–Madison US
• National Institute for Subatomic Physics NL
• The University of Melbourne AU
• Los Alamos National Laboratory US
• Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules FR
• King Abdulaziz University SA
• Sorbonne Université FR
• California Institute of Technology US
• University College London GB
• Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies FR
• Universität Hamburg DE
• Universitat de València ES
• University of Bonn DE
• Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences RU
• Northern Illinois University US
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México MX
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory US
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory US
• Paul Scherrer Institute CH
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE
• CEA Paris-Saclay FR
• University of Victoria CA
• Michigan State University US
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• University of California, Irvine US
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign US
• Northwestern University US
• Instituto de Física Corpuscular ES
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory US
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati IT
• University of Delaware US
• Columbia University US
• Universidad de Buenos Aires AR
• Imperial College London GB
• Université de Montréal CA
• European Organization for Nuclear Research CH
• Hillsdale College US
• University of Basel CH
• Cornell University US
• Institute for Advanced Study US
• University of Sussex GB
• Syracuse University US
• Université Paris-Saclay FR
• Durham University GB
• Max Planck Institute for Physics DE
• Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives FR
• Florida State University US
• University of Tübingen DE
• Argonne National Laboratory US
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY DE
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory US
• University of Zurich CH
• Yonsei University KR
• University of Oxford GB
• University of Colorado Boulder US
• Novosibirsk State University RU
• Institute for High Energy Physics RU
• Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe JP
• Ghent University BE
• Battelle US
• University of Glasgow GB
• University of Chicago US
• University of California, Santa Cruz US
• Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics RU
• ETH Zurich CH
• Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers FR
• Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques FR
• University of Bern CH
• The Ohio State University US
• High Energy Accelerator Research Organization JP
• Royal Holloway University of London GB
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli IT
• University of Washington US
• Johns Hopkins University US
• Forschungszentrum Jülich DE
• The University of Tokyo JP
• Tohoku University JP
• University of Warwick GB

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