Palm products from the Particle Data Group

Warning: this page and the files it points to are quite old.
They are not even tested on recent Palm systems so use at your own risk.
We plan to update them in the fall of 2004.

The Particle Data Group is porting some of our databases and information to the Palm computing environment. This is just a beginning. We also give other physics related links below. Keep those comments and suggestions flowing to PDG consultant John Krane (jkrane@fnal.gov) or PDG contact Tom Trippe (trippe@lbl.gov).

Particle Data Book, Palm Version 1.1 Doug Lowder has contributed this Palm implementation of the Particle Physics Booklet containing tables of physical and astrophysical constants, and particle properties. Numerical values can copied/pasted into Palm calculators. Download the file pdbook11.zip (17KB), unzip it, and install the file pdbook11.prc on your Palm device. This new version is a stand-alone application which includes the data, so no separate database is needed. See his Particle Data Book page for more information and the same download files. Version 1.1, Sep. 19, 2001: Cures problems which caused crashes and prevented beaming the application on Palm OS 4.0.

Other PDG Data and Figures

Table of Particle Masses, Widths, ID#'s

This is a table of all elementary particles, listing particle name, charge, mass, width, and Monte Carlo Particle ID number.

Confidence level vs chi-squared/n and n d.o.f.

This figure gives contours of fixed confidence level as a function of the "reduced chi-squared" (=chi-squared/n) and the number of degrees of freedom n. Curves are labeled by the probability that a measurement will give a value of chi-squared/n greater than that given on the y axis; e.g. for n=10, a value of chi-squared/n > 1.8 can be expected 5% of the time.

Confidence level vs chi-squared for n d.o.f.

This figure gives the confidence level versus chi-squared for n degrees of freedom. The curve for a given n gives the probability that a value at least as large as chi-squared will be obtained in an experiment; e.g., for n=10, a value chi-squared >18 will occur in 5% of a large number of experiments.

Downloading "Other PDG Data and Figures"

You can download the PDG's Palm files (11KB), updated 9/99. Unzip the pdg_sep99.zip file, which contains

File Name	Contents (see also full descriptions below)	Required App.
chi2_n_vs_n.pdb	Confidence level vs chi-squared/n and n d.o.f.	Image Viewer III
cl_vs_chi2.pdb	Confidence level vs chi-squared for n d.o.f.	Image Viewer III
Part_DataG_v2.pdb	Table of Particle Masses, Widths and ID#'s	MobileDB Lite
Part_DataG_v2_doc.txt	Version history and notes for above Table	any text reader

Install the required application(s) for the file(s) you want to use, and install the .pdb file(s) using the Install tool in your Palm Desktop application.

Required Palm Application

MobileDB Lite is a free database reader. Further information on this reader and the MobileDB shareware reader used to create databases is available from Mobile Generation Software.

Image Viewer III is a shareware viewer for all kinds of bitmap images. The free evaluation version works fine.

Other Physics Related Applications

The Particle Data Group does not take responsibility for the functionality of the following links, but provides them in case you are interested:

Heavy Ion Fusion Calculator (by Torben Lauritsen).

Last update July 13, 2000. Maintained by Tom Trippe.