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Please use this CITATION: C. Caso et al. (Particle Data Group), The European Physical Journal C3 (1998) 1

To reduce the size of the following Reviews' PostScript files, we have divided them into several subfiles.

We present the following indices:

• Cosmic Rays
• Cosmic Background Radiation
• Electroweak Model and Constraints on New Physics
• Particle Detectors
• Passage of Particles through Matter
• QCD
• Statistics

Cosmic Rays (2 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(7 pages)	Primary spectra, Cosmic rays in the atmosphere, Cosmic rays at the surface
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(9 pages)	Cosmic rays underground, Air showers, References

Cosmic Background Radiation (2 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(5 pages)	Introduction, The CMB frequency spectrum
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(8 pages)	Deviations from isotropy, References

Electroweak Model and Constraints on New Physics (3 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(11 pages)	Introduction, Renormalization and radiative corrections, Cross-section and asymmetry formulas
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(11 pages)	W and Z decays, Experimental results
PostScript	PDF	Part 3	(14 pages)	Constraints on new physics, References

Particle Detectors (3 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(12 pages)	Organic scintillators, Inorganic scintillators, Cerenkov detectors, Transition radiation detectors (TRD's), Silicon photodiodes and particle detectors, Proportional and drift chambers
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(3 pages)	Time-projection chambers
PostScript	PDF	Part 3	(11 pages)	Calorimeters, Measurement of particle momenta in a uniform magnetic field, Superconducting solenoids for collider detectors, Other observations, References

Passage of Particles through Matter (3 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(9 pages)	Notation, Ionization energy loss by heavy particles
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(8 pages)	Multiple scattering through small angles, Radiation length and associated quantities, Electromagnetic cascades
PostScript	PDF	Part 3	(8 pages)	Muon energy loss at high energy, Cerenkov and transition radiation, References

QCD (2 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(12 pages)	The QCD Lagrangian, The QCD coupling and renormalization scheme, QCD in deep-inelastic scattering, QCD in decays of the tau lepton, QCD in high-energy hadron collisions
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(13 pages)	QCD in heavy-quarkonium decay, Perturbative QCD in e+ e- collisions, Scaling violations in fragmentation functions, Jet rates in ep collisions, Lattice QCD, Conclusions, References

Statistics (2 parts)

PostScript	PDF	Part 1	(8 pages)	Parameter estimation, Data with a common mean, The method of maximum likelihood, Propagation of errors, Method of least squares
PostScript	PDF	Part 2	(9 pages)	Exact confidence intervals, References

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