Meson Summary Tables

in the 2009 Review of Particle Physics

(Cut-off date for this update was January 15, 2009.)
Please use this CITATION: C. Amsler et al. (Particle Data Group), Physics Letters B667, 1 (2008) and
2009 partial update for the 2010 edition

MESONS

All Mesons that appear in the Summary Table and/or Listings *

pi^+-, pi⁰, eta, f_0, a_0, ... (Light unflavored)

K^+-, K⁰, ..., K^*, ... (Strange)

D^+-, D⁰, D^*, ... (Charmed)

D_s, D_s^*, ... (Charmed, strange)

B^+-, B⁰, ..., B^* (Bottom)

B_s (Bottom, strange)

B_c (Bottom, charmed)

eta_c, J/psi, ... chi_c, ... (c cbar)

Upsilon, chi_b ... (b bbar)

* See also Figure 1 and Tables 14.2, 14.3 of the Quark Model Review
for suggested q qbar quark-model assignments for most of the known mesons. PDF

Having trouble with PDF files? See a PDF help file.