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C. Amsler et al. (Particle Data Group), Physics Letters B667, 1 (2008)

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C. Amsler, ¹ M. Doser, ² M. Antonelli, ³ D. Asner, ⁴ K.S. Babu, ⁵ H. Baer, ⁶ H.R. Band, ⁷ R.M. Barnett, ⁸ J. Beringer, ⁸ E. Bergren, G. Bernardi, ⁹ W. Bertl, ¹⁰ H. Bichsel, ¹¹ O. Biebel, ¹² P. Bloch, ² E. Blucher, ¹³ S. Blusk, ¹⁴ R.N. Cahn, ⁸ M. Carena, ^15,^13,¹⁶ C. Caso, ^17,* A. Ceccucci, ² D. Chakraborty, ¹⁸ M.-C. Chen, ¹⁹ R.S. Chivukula, ²⁰ G. Cowan, ²¹ O. Dahl, ⁸ G. D'Ambrosio, ²² T. Damour, ²³ A. de Gouvea, ²⁴ T. DeGrand, ²⁵ B. Dobrescu, ¹⁵ M. Drees, ²⁶ A. Edwards, ²⁷ S. Eidelman, ²⁸ V.D. Elvira, ¹⁵ J. Erler, ²⁹ V.V. Ezhela, ³⁰ J.L. Feng, ¹⁹ W. Fetscher, ³¹ B.D. Fields, ³² B. Foster, ³³ T.K. Gaisser, ³⁴ L. Garren, ¹⁵ H.-J. Gerber, ³¹ G. Gerbier, ³⁵ T. Gherghetta, ³⁶ G.F. Giudice, ² M. Goodman, ³⁷ C. Grab, ³¹ A.V. Gritsan, ³⁸ J.-F. Grivaz, ³⁹ D.E. Groom, ⁸ M. Grünewald, ⁴⁰ A. Gurtu, ^41,² T. Gutsche, ⁴² H.E. Haber, ⁴³ K. Hagiwara, ⁴⁴ C. Hagmann, ⁴⁵ K.G. Hayes, ⁴⁶ J.J. Hernández-Rey, ⁴⁷^,¶ K. Hikasa, ⁴⁸ I. Hinchliffe, ⁸ A. Höcker, ² J. Huston, ²⁰ P. Igo-Kemenes, ⁴⁹ J.D. Jackson, ⁸ K.F. Johnson, ⁶ T. Junk, ¹⁵ D. Karlen, ⁵⁰ B. Kayser, ¹⁵ D. Kirkby, ¹⁹ S.R. Klein, ⁵¹ I.G. Knowles, ⁵² C. Kolda, ⁵³ R.V. Kowalewski, ⁵⁰ P. Kreitz, ⁵⁴ B. Krusche, ⁵⁵ Yu.V. Kuyanov, ³⁰ Y. Kwon, ⁵⁶ O. Lahav, ⁵⁷ P. Langacker, ⁵⁸ A. Liddle, ⁵⁹ Z. Ligeti, ⁸ C.-J. Lin, ⁸ T.M. Liss, ⁶⁰ L. Littenberg, ⁶¹ J.C. Liu, ⁵⁴ K.S. Lugovsky, ³⁰ S.B. Lugovsky, ³⁰ H. Mahlke, ⁶² M.L. Mangano, ² T. Mannel, ⁶³ A.V. Manohar, ⁶⁴ W.J. Marciano, ⁶¹ A.D. Martin, ⁶⁵ A. Masoni, ⁶⁶ D. Milstead, ⁶⁷ R. Miquel, ⁶⁸ K. Mönig, ⁶⁹ H. Murayama, ^70,^71,⁸ K. Nakamura, ⁴⁴ M. Narain, ⁷² P. Nason, ⁷³ S. Navas, ⁷⁴^,¶ P. Nevski, ⁶¹ Y. Nir, ⁷⁵ K.A. Olive, ⁷⁶ L. Pape, ³¹ C. Patrignani, ¹⁷ J.A. Peacock, ⁵² A. Piepke, ⁷⁷ G. Punzi, ⁷⁸ A. Quadt, ^79, S. Raby, ⁸⁰ G. Raffelt, ⁸¹ B.N. Ratcliff, ⁵⁴ B. Renk, ⁸² P. Richardson, ⁶⁵ S. Roesler, ² S. Rolli, ⁸³ A. Romaniouk, ⁸⁴ L.J. Rosenberg, ¹¹ J.L. Rosner, ¹³ C.T. Sachrajda, ⁸⁵ Y. Sakai, ⁴⁴ S. Sarkar, ⁸⁶ F. Sauli, ² O. Schneider, ⁸⁷ D. Scott, ⁸⁸ B. Seligman, ⁸⁹ M. Shaevitz, ⁹⁰ T. Sjöstrand, ⁹¹ J.G. Smith, ²⁵ G.F. Smoot, ⁸ S. Spanier, ⁵⁴ H. Spieler, ⁸ A. Stahl, ⁹² T. Stanev, ³⁴ S.L. Stone, ¹⁴ T. Sumiyoshi, ⁹³ M. Tanabashi, ⁹⁴ J. Terning, ⁹⁵ M. Titov, ⁹⁶ N.P. Tkachenko, ³⁰ N.A. Törnqvist, ⁹⁷ D. Tovey, ⁹⁸ G.H. Trilling, ⁸ T.G. Trippe, ⁸ G. Valencia, ⁹⁹ K. van Bibber, ⁴⁵ M.G. Vincter, ⁴ P. Vogel, ¹⁰⁰ D.R. Ward, ¹⁰¹ T. Watari, ¹⁰² B.R. Webber, ¹⁰¹ G. Weiglein, ⁶⁵ J.D. Wells, ¹⁰³ M. Whalley, ⁶⁵ A. Wheeler, ⁵⁴ C.G. Wohl, ⁸ L. Wolfenstein, ¹⁰⁴ J. Womersley, ¹⁰⁵ C.L. Woody, ⁶¹ R.L. Workman, ¹⁰⁶ A. Yamamoto, ⁴⁴ W. -M. Yao, ⁸ O.V. Zenin, ³⁰ J. Zhang, ¹⁰⁷ R.-Y. Zhu ¹⁰⁸ P.A. Zyla ⁸

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1. Institute of Physics, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
2. CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Genève 23, Switzerland
3. Lab. Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN; CP 13, via E. Fermi, 40; I-00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
4. Department of Physics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
5. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
6. Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
7. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
8. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
9. LPNHE, IN2P3-CNRS et Universités of Paris VI & VII, F-75252 Paris, France
10. Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
11. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
12. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Department für Physik, Schellingstr. 4, D-80799 München, Germany
13. Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
14. Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA
15. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
16. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA
17. Dipartimento di Fisica e INFN, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
18. Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
19. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
20. Michigan State University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
21. Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
22. INFN - Sezione di Napoli Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
23. Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
24. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
25. Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
26. Universität Bonn, Physikalisches Institut, Nussallee 12, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
27. Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
28. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, RU-630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
29. Departamento de Física Téorica, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F. 04510, México
30. COMPAS Group, Institute for High Energy Physics, RU-142284, Protvino, Russia
31. Institute for Particle Physics, ETH-Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
32. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
33. Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
34. Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
35. CEA/Saclay, DSM/IRFU, BP 2, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
36. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
37. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
38. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
39. LAL, IN2P3-CNRS et Univ. de Paris 11; F-91898 Orsay CEDEX, France
40. Dept. Subatomic Physics, University of Ghent, Proeftuinstraat 86, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
41. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Bombay) 400 005, India
42. Institut für Theoretische Physik; Universität Tübingen; Auf der Morgenstelle 14; D-72076 Tübingen; Germany
43. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
44. KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-0801, Japan
45. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
46. Department of Physics, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242, USA
47. IFIC --- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universitat de València --- C.S.I.C., E-46071 València, Spain
48. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
49. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
50. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
51. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
52. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK
53. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 225 Niewland Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
54. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309, USA
55. Institute of Physics, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
56. Yonsei University, Department of Physics, 134 Sinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-gu, Seoul, 120-749, South Korea
57. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
58. School of Natural Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
59. University of Sussex, Astronomy Centre, Falmer Brighton BN1 9RH, UK
60. Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
61. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
62. Laboratory of Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
63. University of Siegen, Fachbereich für Physik, Siegen, Germany
64. Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
65. Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
66. INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria de Monserrato, Casella postale 170, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
67. Fysikum, Stockholms Universitet, AlbaNova University Centre, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
68. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, E-09193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
69. DESY-Zeuthen, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany
70. Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8568, Japan
71. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
72. Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
73. INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 3, I-20216 Milano, Italy
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76. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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80. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 USA
81. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805 München, Germany
82. Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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84. Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute; 31, Kashirskoye shosse; 115409 Moscow; Russia
85. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton S017 1BJ, UK
86. Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
87. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
88. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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91. Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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93. High Energy Physics Laboratory, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan
94. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
95. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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103. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Dept., 2477 Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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108. California Institute of Technology, Physics Department, 256-48, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract. This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2778 new measurements from 645 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We also summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as Higgs bosons, heavy neutrinos, and supersymmetric particles. All the particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We also give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as the Standard Model, particle detectors, probability, and statistics. Among the 108 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised, including those on CKM quark-mixing matrix, V_ud & V_us, V_cb & V_ub, top quark, muon anomalous magnetic moment, extra dimensions, particle detectors, cosmic background radiation, dark matter, cosmological parameters, and big bang cosmology. A booklet is available containing the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions of some of the other sections of this full Review. All tables, listings, and reviews (and errata) are also available on the Particle Data Group website: http://pdg.lbl.gov.

The publication of the Review of Particle Physics is supported by the Division of High Energy Physics in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231; by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Agreement No. PHY-0652989; by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN); by an implementing arrangement between the governments of Japan (MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) and the United States (DOE) on cooperative research and development; and by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).

¶ J.J. Hernández-Rey and S. Navas acknowledge support from MICINN, Spain (FPA2007-29104-E).