Review of Particle Physics

C Amsler,M Drees,M Doser,D Milstead,S Sarkar,O Lahav,O Biebel,S Navas,M Narain,A De Gouvêa,I Hinchliffe,O Schneider,W Fetscher,P Bloch,D Karlen,J.-F Grivaz,C Hagmann,J Beringer,C Patrignani,G Gerbier,S Blusk,P Kreitz,E Blucher,Yu.V Kuyanov,C Grab,H Bichsel,R Miquel,G Valencia,M Grünewald,B Foster,G Bernardi,K Hagiwara,M.-C Chen,M Titov,A Yamamoto,A Gurtu,R.L Workman,I.G Knowles,A Stahl,J Zhang,K Van Bibber,D Chakraborty,D Kirkby,G Weiglein,A Piepke,A Masoni,L Pape,L Garren,P Vogel,A Höcker,K Mönig,S Rolli,T Stanev,T Sumiyoshi,B Renk,B Krusche,J Womersley,J Huston,G Harper,A Romaniouk,M Antonelli,J.C Liu,K Nakamura,H Spieler,P Nevski,W Bertl,G Punzi,E Bergren,S Roesler,C Caso,B.R Webber,S Eidelman,C.G Wohl,G Cowan,A Ceccucci,A Quadt,K Hikasa,Y Sakai,F Sauli,B N Ratcliff ,O I Dahl ,T R Junk ,Christopher Kolda ,S M Spanier ,M H Shaevitz ,H R Band ,K S Babu ,Thibault Damour ,Jonathan L Rosner ,M C Goodman ,K F Johnson ,Н П Ткаченко ,D M Scott ,J G Smith ,Mg Vincter ,A D Martin ,Jens Erler ,John D Jackson ,В В Ежела ,Thomas Degrand ,Howard E Haber ,R M Barnett ,G H Trilling ,Aneesh V Manohar ,Christopher Sachrajda ,C Woody ,M A Whalley ,R Kowalewski ,K S Lugovsky ,T M Liss ,Tony Gherghetta ,Marcela Carena ,V D Elvira ,D A Edwards ,T G Trippe ,James D Wells ,Georg G Raffelt ,Hanna Mahlke ,H.j Gerber ,Paolo Nason ,Keith A Olive ,John Terning ,Peter Richardson ,Nils A Törnqvist ,S B Lugovsky ,D R Ward ,Taizan Watari ,Torbjörn Sjöstrand ,Hitoshi Murayama ,Zoltan Ligeti ,T K Gaisser ,W Seligman ,Gian F Giudice ,Giancarlo D’ambrosio ,J J Hernández-Rey ,P Igo‐Kemenes ,George F Smoot ,Thomas Mannel ,K Hayes ,O Zenin ,Stuart Raby ,Paul Langacker ,Lincoln Wolfenstein ,D R Tovey ,Amanda Wheeler ,Y J Kwon ,Laurence Littenberg ,W-M Yao ,M Mangano ,P Żyla ,R N Cahn ,Masaharu Tanabashi ,L J Rosenberg ,D E Groom ,C Lin ,Thomas Gutsche ,Andrew R Liddle ,Howard Baer ,Bogdan A Dobrescu ,Jonathan L Feng ,Sebastian Klein ,A V Gritsan ,William J Marciano ,J Peacock ,Boris Kayser ,S Stone ,V S Lugovsky ,R Sekhar Chivukula ,Brian D Fields ,Yosef Nir ,D M Asner ,R Y Zhu ,Paul Schaffner

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.07.018

Abstract

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2778 new measurements from 645 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We also 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 108 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on CKM quark-mixing matrix, V ud & V us , V cb & V ub , top quark, muon anomalous magnetic moment, extra dimensions, particle detectors, cosmic background radiation, dark matter, cosmological parameters, and big bang cosmology. A 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.

Highlights

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics
All the particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables
China California Institute of Technology, Physics Department, 256-48, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. We dedicate this edition of the Review of Particle Physics to the memory of Carlo Caso, a long-time member of the Particle Data Group