Tools for Encoding the Review of Particle Physics
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Encoding Assignments and Aids

• PDG Encoding System. For help see Instructions
• Lists of papers for encoding (January 2017) (static pages no longer supported)   
• Schedule for 2017 updates and for 2018 edition
• Chart of encoders
• Encoding Sheets
• Codes (Institution, Journal, Technique, Particle, Verifier)
• PDG Technical Notes
• Information on TeX macros for encoding (JANUARY 1997)

Particles and Articles Under Revision and TeX files

The following point to the Berkeley website to ensure current version

• Particle Listings under Revision (except for unstable mesons -- see below)
• Meson Listings under Revision
• Reviews responsibility list
• PDG Review Authoring system (TeX files for reviews, PDFs, etc.)
• Raw TeX files for Minireviews (obsolete)
• Raw TeX files for Sport Sections (obsolete)
• Minireviews, and Sports Sections under Revision
• Raw TeX files for Booklet 2014

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Encoding Sheets (available as a PostScript file)

Codes for Encoding Review of Particle Physics

• Institution codes
• Journal codes and Names
• Technique codes and Names
• Particle codes in book order
  • Codes for particles - no Meson Resonances (pdf)
  • Codes for Meson Resonances  (sorted by particle node)
  • Codes for Everything but Meson Resonances
• Verifier codes

Chart of encoders and LBNL/CERN overseers for RPP

Computing Documentation

• PDG TWiki
• Towards a New PDG Computing System, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010), published in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 082001

Particle Data Group Technical Notes

• br_adjust help       Examples of br_adjust measurements
• PDG_NOTE_19-01 On low-energy behavior of dE/dx
• PDG_NOTE_03-01 On the current value of the Fermi coupling constant
• PDG_NOTE_96-01 Averaging Data with Correlations (Revised August 2001)
• PDG_NOTE_00-01 Technical Requirements for RPP figures (Changed 12-18-2000)
• PDG_NOTE_93-01 Fitting with Mass Differences
• PDG_NOTE_93-02 More on Fitting with Mass Differences
• PDG_NOTE_93-03 Calculations of Upper Limits
• PDG_NOTE_93-04 Effect of a Form Factor on dE/dx from Close Collisions
• PDG_NOTE_93-05 Standards for PostScript Figures in the Review of Particle Physics
• PDG_NOTE_93-06 Energy loss in matter by heavy particles
• PDG_NOTE_94-01 Policy on Handling Reviews
• PDG_NOTE_94-02 Product Branching Ratios and Rescaling
• PDG_NOTE_94-03 The Gamma Distribution Random Number Generator
• PDG_NOTE_95-01 Least-Squares Fitting with Correlated Data Errors

Information on TeX macros

• TeX Macros for Encoding Papers (changed March 5, 1997)
• Sample Usage of TeX Macros for Encoding Papers
• Macros for Bold Greek (tenpoint, twelvepoint)
• Macros for Big Bold Greek (twentyonepoint)
• Macros for Big Fonts (seventeenpoint, twentyfivepoint)

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