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MESONS
in the 2003 WWW update of the Review of Particle Physics

Please use this CITATION: K. Hagiwara et al. (Particle Data Group), Phys. Rev. D 66, 010001 (2002) and 2003 off-year partial update for the 2004 edition available on the PDG WWW pages (URL: http://pdg.lbl.gov/) (bibtex format)

Cut-off date for this update was January 2003.

Only the Listings have been updated at this time.
The Summary Tables and Reviews refer to the 2002 edition.

Complete list of Reviews (2002 version) found in the Meson Listings.


PostScript Files for the Mesons

* Light Unflavored Mesons (pi, eta, rho, ...)
* Strange Mesons (K's)
* Charmed Mesons (D's)
* Charmed, Strange Mesons (D(s)'s)
* Bottom Mesons (B's) For the B Mesons: Note on Evaluations by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group
* Bottom, Strange Mesons (B(s)'s)
* Bottom, Charmed Mesons (B(c)'s)
* c cbar Mesons (eta(c), ... J/psi, ... chi(c0))
* b bbar Mesons (Upsilon, ... chi(b0))
* Non-q qbar Mesons

Light Mesons
Note on Pseudoscalar-Meson Decay Constants (2002 version)
pi+-
pi0
eta
f(0)(600) or sigma
rho(770)
omega(782)
eta'(958)
f(0)(980)
a(0)(980)
phi(1020)
h(1)(1170)
b(1)(1235)
a(1)(1260)
f(2)(1270)
f(1)(1285)
eta(1295)
pi(1300)
a(2)(1320)
f(0)(1370)
h(1)(1380)
pi(1)(1400)
f(1)(1420)
omega(1420)
f(2)(1430)
eta(1440)
a(0)(1450)
rho(1450)
f(0)(1500)
f(1)(1510)
f(2)'(1525)
f(2)(1565)
h(1)(1595)
pi(1)(1600)
X(1600)
a(1)(1640)
f(2)(1640)
eta(2)(1645)
omega(1650)
omega(3)(1670)
pi(2)(1670)
phi(1680)
rho(3)(1690)
rho(1700)
a(2)(1700)
f(0)(1710)
eta(1760)
pi(1800)
f(2)(1810)
phi(3)(1850)
eta(2)(1870)
rho(1900)
f(2)(1910)
f(2)(1950)
rho(3)(1990)
X(2000)
f(2)(2010)
f(0)(2020)
a(4)(2040)
f(4)(2050)
pi(2)(2100)
f(0)(2100)
f(2)(2150)
rho(2150)
f(0)(2200)
f(J)(2220)
eta(2225)
rho(3)(2250)
f(2)(2300)
f(4)(2300)
f(0)(2330)
f(2)(2340)
rho(5)(2350)
a(6)(2450)
f(6)(2510)
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Further States

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Strange Mesons
K+-
K0
K(S)0
K(L)0
K*(892)
K(1)(1270)
K(1)(1400)
K*(1410)
K(0)*(1430)
K(2)*(1430)
K(1460)
K(2)(1580)
K(1630)
K(1)(1650)
K*(1680)
K(2)(1770)
K(3)*(1780)
K(2)(1820)
K(1830)
K(0)*(1950)
K(2)*(1980)
K(4)*(2045)
K(2)(2250)
K(3)(2320)
K(5)*(2380)
K(4)(2500)
K(3100)

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For the B Mesons: Note on Evaluations by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group
Charmed and Bottom Mesons:
Charmed Charmed, Strange Bottom Bottom, Strange Bottom, Charmed
Note on Production and Decay of b-flavored Hadrons (2002 version)
D+-
D0
D*(2007)0
D*(2010)+-
D(1)(2420)0
D(1)(2420)+-
D(2)*(2460)0
D(2)*(2460)+-
D*(2640)+-
D(s)+-
D(s)*+-
D(s1)(2536)+-
D(sJ)(2573)+-
B organization
B+-   
B0 errata   
B+-/B0 Admixture errata
B+-/B0/B(s)0/b-baryon Admixture
V(cb) and V(ub) CKM Matrix Elements
B*
B(J)*(5732) or B**
B(s)0
B(s)*
B(sJ)*(5850)
B(c)+-

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c cbar Mesons b bbar Mesons
Note on Branching Ratios of psi(2S) and chi(c0,1,2) (2002 version)
eta(c)(1S)
J/psi(1S)
chi(c0)(1P)
chi(c1)(1P)
h(c)(1P)
chi(c2)(1P)
eta(c)(2S)
psi(2S)
psi(3770)
psi(3836)
psi(4040)
psi(4160)
psi(4415)
eta(b)(1S)
Upsilon(1S)
chi(b0)(1P)
chi(b1)(1P)
chi(b2)(1P)
Upsilon(2S)
chi(b0)(2P)
chi(b1)(2P)
chi(b2)(2P)
Upsilon(3S)
Upsilon(4S)   
Upsilon(10860)
Upsilon(11020)

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Non-q qbar Mesons
Non-q qbar Candidates


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