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We present the following indices:
| Part 1 | Primary spectra, Cosmic rays in the atmosphere, Cosmic rays at the surface |
| (7 pages, 308kb) | |
| Part 2 | Cosmic rays underground, Air showers, References |
| (9 pages, 272kb) |
Cosmic Background Radiation (2 parts)
| Part 1 | Introduction, The CMB frequency spectrum |
| (5 pages, 592kb) | |
| Part 2 | Deviations from isotropy, References |
| (8 pages, 457kb) |
Electroweak Model and Constraints on New Physics (3 parts)
| Part 1 | Introduction, Renormalization and radiative corrections, Cross-section and asymmetry formulas |
| (11 pages, 154kb) | |
| Part 2 | W and Z decays, Experimental results |
| (11 pages, 243kb) | |
| Part 3 | Constraints on new physics, References |
| (14 pages, 293kb) |
| Part 1 | Organic scintillators, Inorganic scintillators, Cerenkov detectors, |
| Transition radiation detectors (TRD's), Silicon photodiodes and particle detectors, Proportional and drift chambers | |
| (11 pages, 156kb) | |
| Part 2 | Time-projection chambers |
| (3 pages, 1031kb) | |
| Part 3 | Calorimeters, Measurement of particle momenta in a uniform magnetic field, |
| Superconducting solenoids for collider detectors, Other observations, | |
| References | |
| (10 pages, 216kb) |
Passage of Particles through Matter (3 parts)
| Part 1 | Notation, Ionization energy loss by heavy particles, |
| Restricted energy loss rates for relativistic ionizing particles | |
| (7 pages, 319kb) | |
| Part 2 | Energetic knock-on electrons (delta rays), Ionization yields, |
| Multiple scattering through small angles, Radiation length and associated quantities, | |
| Electromagnetic cascades | |
| (9 pages, 298kb) | |
| Part 3 | Muon energy loss at high energy, Cerenkov and transition radiation, |
| References | |
| (8 pages, 255kb) |
| Part 1 | 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 | |
| (12 pages, 181kb) | |
| Part 2 | 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 | |
| (13 pages, 185kb) |
| Part 1 | General, Data with a common mean, The method of maximum likelihood, |
| Propagation of errors, Method of least squares | |
| (9 pages, 118kb) | |
| Part 2 | Errors and confidence intervals |
| (6 pages, 253kb) | |
| Part 3 | Errors and confidence intervals (continued), References |
| (8 pages, 278kb) |
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