Particle Data Group

Errata for the 2012 Review of Particle Physics

J. Beringer et al. (Particle Data Group), Phys. Rev. D86, 010001 (2012).


During the time between editions of the Review of Particle Physics and the Particle Physics Booklet, we often find a number of errata. We correct most errata on our WWW pages. If you should find errata that are not known to us, please send mail to pdg @ lbl.gov.


Pages 79, 1255 of the full Review (page 144 of the DataBooklet, pages 3, 3, 10 of the Web versions below):
    p, n, N-resonces; Baryons Summary Table     (page 3)
    Baryons Summary Table     (page 3)
    p Particle Listing     (page 10)
  • (November 28, 2012):
    The value of the partial mean life limit for n n → νe νe should read: > 1.4 (1030 years) at 90% CL.

Page 320 of the full Review (page 4 of the Web versions below):
    High-energy collider parameters     (page 4)
  • (November 20, 2012):
    The third sentence in the table caption should read:
    For LHC, the parameters expected at the ATLAS and CMS experiment for running in 2012 and nominal values are also given.

Page 321 of the full Review (page 5 of the Web versions below):
    High-energy collider parameters     (page 5)
  • (November 20, 2012):
    The third sentence in the table caption should read:
    For LHC, the parameters expected at the ALICE experiment for running in 2012 and nominal values are also given.

  • (November 20, 2012):
    The "LHC (CERN) 2010" entry for "Full Crossing angle (μ rad)" should read: 140.

Page 368 of the full Review (page 2 of the Web versions below):
    Particle detectors for non-accelerator physics     (page 2)
  • (December 17, 2012):
    The third sentence of the first paragraph in Section 32.2.1 should read:
    The amount of scintillation light generated is proportional to energy deposited in the atmosphere and nearly
    independent of the primary species.

Page 426 of the full Review (page 13 of the Web versions below):
    Kinematics     (page 13)
  • (November 15, 2012):
    In reference 1. the title of the book by J.J. Sakurai should read: Modern Quantum Mechanics.

Page 428 of the full Review (page 312 of the Data Booklet, page 4 of the Web versions below):
    Cross-section formulae for specific processes     (page 4)
  • (February 04, 2013):
    Line four of the equation (44.21) should read:
    $$-3 \frac{(m^2_Q - t) (m^2_Q - u) + m^2_Q (u - t)}{s (m^2_Q - u)}\ldots$$

Page 447 of the full Review (page 9 of the Web versions below):
    Plots of cross sections and related quantities     (page 9)
  • (January 28, 2013):
    Reference 13 to Table 46.2 should read: D. A. Fagundes, M. J. Menon, Nucl. Phys. A880, 1 (2012).
    Ref. 14 should be: D. A. Fagundes, M. J. Menon, and P. V. R. G. Silva, Braz. J. Phys.42, 452 (2012) [arXiv:1112.4704]).

Page 557 of the full Review (page 7 of the Web versions below):
    Leptoquarks     (page 7)
  • (December 17, 2012):
    Reference 9 authors names should read: B. Schrempp and F. Schrempp.

Page 752 of the full Review (page 1 of the Web versions below):
    a(2)(1320) Particle Listing     (page 1)
  • (November 30, 2012):
    The COMMENT field of the CONDO 93 measurement of the a2(1320) mass in 3 π mode should read: $\gamma$ p → n π+ π+ π .

Page 563 of the full Review (page 3 of the Web versions below):
    Axions and other similar particles     (page 3)
  • (February 21, 2013):
    Equation (4) for axion's two-photon interaction should read: $$ {\cal L}_{A\gamma\gamma} =-{G_{A\gamma\gamma}\over4}\,F_{\mu\nu} \tilde F^{\mu\nu}\phi_A =G_{A\gamma\gamma}{\bf E}\cdot{\bf B}\,\phi_A \qquad (4) $$

Page 753 of the full Review (page 4 of the Web versions below):
    a(2)(1320) Particle Listing     (page 4)
  • (November 30, 2012):
    The COMMENT field of the CONDO 93 measurement of the a2(1320) width in 3 π mode should read: $\gamma$ p → n π+ π+ π .

Page 907 of the full Review (page 10 of the Web versions below):
    D0-- Dbar0 Mixing     (page 10)
  • (October 22, 2012):
    In Table 5 the values of AΓ(x 10−3) for LHCb experiment should read: −5.9±5.9±2.1 and for HFAG should read: 0.3±2.3. Note that the units are 10−3.

Page 1266 of the full Review (page 13 of the Web versions below):
   n Particle Listing    (page 13)
  • (November 26, 2012):
    The definition of sin(ΦAV) in the listings of measurments of "ΦAV, PHASE OF gA RELATIVE TO gV"
    should have a minus sign and read: sin(ΦAV) ≡ − D (1 + 3 λ2) / 2 |λ|;