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Reviews, Tables, and Plots
in the 2000 Review of Particle Physics

Please use this CITATION: D.E. Groom et al. (Particle Data Group), The European Physical Journal C15 (2000) 1 (bibtex)

New: Standalone figures are now available for these reviews.
See also this same index in alphabetical order.
Reviews associated with the Particle Listings.
 

Categories:
* Constants, Units, Atomic and Nuclear Properties
* Standard Model and Related Topics
* Particle Properties
* Hypothetical Particles
* Astrophysics and Cosmology
* Experimental Methods and Colliders
* Mathematical Tools
* Kinematics, Cross-Section Formulae, and Plots
* Authors, Introductory Text, History plots


Constants, Units, Atomic and Nuclear Properties

 
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Physical constants PS PDF (6 pages) PDF (1 page)
Astrophysical constants PS PDF (6 pages) PDF (2 pages) errata
International System of units PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (1 page)
Periodic table of the elements PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
Electronic structure of the elements PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Atomic and nuclear properties of materials PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Electromagnetic relations PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Naming scheme for hadrons PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)

Standard Model and Related Topics

 
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Quantum chromodynamics PS PDF (27 pages) PDF (10 pages)
Electroweak model and constraints on new physics PS PDF (42 pages) PDF (15 pages)
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix PS PDF (13 pages) PDF (5 pages)
Quark model PS PDF (9 pages) PDF (4 pages)
CP Violation PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
CPT Invariance Tests in Neutral Kaon Decay PS PDF (4 pages) PDF (2 pages)
CP Violation in KS -> 3pi PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
Fits for KL CP-Violation Parameters PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
CP Violation in B Decay -- Standard Model Predictions PS PDF (19 pages) PDF (7 pages)

Particle Properties

(Hypothetical particles are listed below.)
Bosons
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The Mass of the W Boson PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)
Extraction of Triple Gauge Couplings (TGC's) PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (1 page)
Extraction of Anomalous Z Z gamma,
Z gamma gamma, and Z Z V Couplings
PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
The Z Boson PS PDF (13 pages) PDF (5 pages)
 
Leptons
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Muon Decay Parameters PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
tau Branching Fractions PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
 
Neutrinos
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Neutrino mass PS PDF (17 pages) PDF (6 pages)
No. of Light Neutrino Types from Collider Expts. PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (1 page)
Searches for Massive Neutrinos PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Two-flavor Oscillation Parameters and Limits PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (1 page) errata
Limits from Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)
Solar neutrinos PS PDF (11 pages) PDF (4 pages)
 
Quarks
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Quark Masses PS PDF (14 pages) PDF (6 pages)
The Top Quark PS PDF (12 pages) PDF (4 pages)
 
Mesons
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Pseudoscalar-Meson Decay Constants PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Scalar mesons PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
The eta(1440), f(1420), and f_1(1510) PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
The Charged Kaon Mass PS PDF (4 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Rare Kaon Decays PS PDF (8 pages) PDF (3 pages)
CPT Invariance Tests in Neutral Kaon Decay PS PDF (4 pages) PDF (2 pages)
CP Violation in KS -> 3pi PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
Fits for KL CP-Violation Parameters PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
D Mesons PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
Production and Decay of b-flavored Hadrons PS PDF (39 pages) PDF (14 pages)
B0-Bbar0 Mixing PS PDF (18 pages) PDF (7 pages)
CP Violation in B Decay -- Standard Model Predictions PS PDF (19 pages) PDF (7 pages)
 
Baryons
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Baryon Decay Parameters PS PDF (4 pages) PDF (2 pages)
The Lambda(1405) PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Charmed Baryons PS PDF (6 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Lambda(c)+ branching fractions PS PDF (2 pages) PDF (1 page)

Hypothetical Particles

 
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Searches for Higgs Bosons PS PDF (27 pages) PDF (9 pages)
Supersymmetry
 -  Theory PS PDF (25 pages) PDF (9 pages)
 -  Experiment PS PDF (23 pages) PDF (9 pages)
 
Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking PS PDF (14 pages) PDF (5 pages)
Searches for Quark and Lepton Compositeness PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
 
Axions and other Very Light Bosons
 -  Theory PS PDF (6 pages) PDF (2 pages)
 -  Astrophys. Constraints PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
 -  Exp. Limits PS PDF (8 pages) PDF (3 pages)
 
The W' Searches PS PDF (6 pages) PDF (2 pages)
The Z' Searches PS PDF (8 pages) PDF (3 pages)
Leptoquark Quantum Numbers PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)
Non-q qbar Mesons PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)

Astrophysics and Cosmology

 
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Experimental tests of gravitational theory PS PDF (11 pages) PDF (4 pages)
Pocket cosmology PS PDF (23 pages) PDF (8 pages)
Big-bang nucleosynthesis PS PDF (8 pages) PDF (3 pages)
Global cosmological parameters: H0, Omega, and Lambda PS PDF (17 pages) PDF (7 pages)
Dark matter PS PDF (4 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Cosmic background radiation PS PDF (14 pages) PDF (5 pages)
Cosmic rays PS PDF (19 pages) PDF (7 pages)

Experimental Methods and Colliders

 
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Accelerator physics of colliders PS PDF (8 pages) PDF (3 pages)
High-energy collider parameters PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (3 pages) errata
Passage of particles through matter PS PDF (30 pages) PDF (11 pages) errata
Particle detectors PS PDF (32 pages) PDF (12 pages)
Radioactivity and radiation protection PS PDF (9 pages) PDF (4 pages)
Commonly used radioactive sources PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)

Mathematical Tools

 
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Probability PS PDF (11 pages) PDF (4 pages)
Statistics PS PDF (20 pages) PDF (7 pages)
Monte Carlo techniques PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
Monte Carlo particle numbering scheme (HTML page)
Clebsch-Gordan coeff., sph. harmonics, and d functions PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
SU(3) isoscalar factors and representation matrices PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)
SU(n) multiplets and Young diagrams PS PDF (3 pages) PDF (1 page)

Kinematics, Cross-Section Formulae, and Plots

 
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Kinematics PS PDF (10 pages) PDF (4 pages)
Cross-section formulae for specific processes PS PDF (7 pages) PDF (3 pages)
Heavy-quark fragmentation in e+ e- annihilation PS PDF (5 pages) PDF (2 pages)
Cross sections and related quantities, plots of (HTML page)

Authors, Introductory Text, History plots

 
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Authors (HTML page)

Introduction and text PS PDF (14 pages) PDF (6 pages)
Online particle physics information (HTML page) PS PDF (18 pages) PDF (7 pages)
History plots PS PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)

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