Notes in the Particle Listings
in the 1996 Review of Particle Physics

Cut-off date for this update was January 15, 1996.

Please use this CITATION.

Gauge and Higgs Bosons, Leptons, Quarks, Mesons, Mesons Resonances, Baryons, Searches.

Other topics are covered in the Reviews, Tables, and Plots and in the Particle Listings

Notes in the Gauge and Higgs Boson Listings

PostScript The Z Boson (12p, 93kb)
PostScript The Higgs Boson (6p, 118kb)
PostScript The Z' Searches (2p, 31kb)
PostScript Axions and other Light Bosons (3p, 44kb)
PostScript Invisible A0 (Axion) (6p, 123kb)

Notes in the Lepton Listings

PostScript Muon Decay Parameters (7p, 71kb)
PostScript tau Branching Fractions (7p, 63kb)
PostScript tau-Decay Parameters (1p, 27kb)
PostScript Neutrinos (15p, 114kb)
PostScript The Electron Neutrino Mass (2p, 25kb)
PostScript No. of Light Neutrino Types from Collider Expts. (2p, 32kb)
PostScript Massive Neutral Leptons & Effects of Nonzero Neutrino Masses (5p, 99kb)
PostScript Sum of Neutrino Masses (1p, 16kb)
PostScript Limits from Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay (2p, 70kb)
PostScript Solar neutrinos Errata (6p, 123kb)

Notes in the Quark Listings

PostScript Quark Masses (11p, 96kb)
PostScript The Top Quark (12p, 87kb)
PostScript Free Quark Searches (1p, 19kb)

Notes in the Meson Listings

(See below for Notes in the Mesons Resonances Listings.)

PostScript Pseudoscalar-Meson Decay Constants (5p, 52kb)
PostScript pi+- -> lepton+- nu gamma and K+- -> lepton+- nu gamma Form Factors (3p, 43kb)
PostScript The Charged Kaon Mass (4p, 97kb)
PostScript Rare Kaon Decays Errata (7p, 77kb)
PostScript Dalitz Plot Parameters for K --> 3pi Decays (1p, 29kb)
PostScript K+-(lepton3) and K0(lepton3) Form Factors (4p, 49kb)
PostScript CP Violation in KS --> 3pi (1p, 24kb)
PostScript CP Violation in K0L Decay (10p, 401kb)
PostScript Delta S = Delta Q in K0 Decays (1p, 17kb)
PostScript D Mesons (4p, 48kb)
PostScript Production and Decay of b-flavored Hadrons (13p, 128kb)
PostScript Semileptonic Decays of B Mesons (17p, 165kb)
PostScript B0-Bbar0 Mixing and CP Violation in B Decay (19p, 232kb)

Notes in the Meson Resonance Listings

PostScript The rho (770) (1p, 19kb)
PostScript The a1(1260) (2p, 27kb)
PostScript Scalar mesons (5p, 47kb)
PostScript The f1(1420) (2p, 28kb)
PostScript The eta(1440) (2p, 26kb)
PostScript The rho (1450) and the rho (1700) (2p, 30kb)
PostScript The fJ(1710) (1p, 27kb)
PostScript The X(1900--3600) Region (1p, 15kb)
PostScript K*(892) Masses and Mass Differences (1p, 17kb)
PostScript The K2(1770) and the K2(1820) (1p, 19kb)
PostScript Width Determinations of the Upsilon States (2p, 28kb)
PostScript Non-q qbar Mesons (6p, 58kb)

Notes in the Baryon Listings

PostScript Baryon Decay Parameters (4p, 52kb)
PostScript N and Delta Resonances (14p, 99kb)
PostScript Baryon Magnetic Moments (2p, 66kb)
PostScript Lambda and Sigma Resonances (5p, 107kb)
PostScript The Lambda(1405) (5p, 47kb)
PostScript The Sigma(1670) Region (1p, 24kb)
PostScript Xi Resonances (1p, 29kb)
PostScript Charmed Baryons (2p, 138kb)

Notes in the Search Listings

PostScript Magnetic Monopole Searches (1p, 21kb)
PostScript Supersymmetry (15p, 111kb)
PostScript Searches for Quark and Lepton Compositeness (5p, 58kb)
PostScript Other Stable Particle Searches (1p, 19kb)

See the Boson Particle Listings for searches for Higgs bosons, other heavy bosons, and axions and other very light bosons, the Lepton Particle Listings for searches for heavy leptons and for neutrino mixing, and the Meson Particle Listings for searches for top and fourth-generation hadrons.

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Betty Armstrong
13-AUG-1996