Abstract
This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2158 new measurements from 551 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 neutrino mass, mixing, and oscillations, QCD, top quark, CKM quark-mixing matrix, Vud & Vus, Vcb & Vub, fragmentation functions, particle detectors for accelerator and non-accelerator physics, magnetic monopoles, 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: pdg.lbl.gov.
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The 2010 edition of Review of Particle Physics is published for the Particle Data Group by IOP Publishing as article number 075021 in volume 37 of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
This edition should be cited as: K Nakamura et al (Particle Data Group) 2010 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 37 075021
Access to the full text of the 2010 edition of the Review is freely available via PDF and HTML pages. The full text (1422 pages) has been split into smaller PDF files for convenient download.
Abstract, Contributors, Highlights and Table of Contents Acrobat PDF (168 KB)
Introduction Acrobat PDF (482 KB)
Particle Physics Summary Tables
Gauge and Higgs Bosons Acrobat PDF (189 KB)
Leptons Acrobat PDF (171 KB)
Quarks Acrobat PDF (102 KB)
Mesons Acrobat PDF (893 KB)
Baryons Acrobat PDF (379 KB)
Searches (Supersymmetry, Compositeness, etc) Acrobat PDF (112 KB)
Tests of Conservation Laws Acrobat PDF (381 KB)
Detailed contents for this section Acrobat PDF (55 KB)
Constants, Units, Atomic and Nuclear Properties Acrobat PDF (396 KB)
Standard Model and Related Topics Acrobat PDF (5.58 MB)
Astrophysics and Cosmology Acrobat PDF (1.71 MB)
Experimental Methods and Colliders Acrobat PDF (4.04 MB)
Mathematical Tools or Statistics, Monte Carlo, Group Theory Acrobat PDF (711 KB)
Kinematics, Cross-Section Formulae, and Plots Acrobat PDF (957 KB)
Introduction: Illustrative Key and Abbreviations Acrobat PDF (297 KB)
Gauge and Higgs Bosons Acrobat PDF (2.31 MB)
Leptons Acrobat PDF (1.80 MB)
Quarks Acrobat PDF (948 KB)
Mesons: Light unflavored and strange Acrobat PDF (4.44 MB)
Mesons: Charmed and bottom Acrobat PDF (7.02 MB)
Mesons: Other Acrobat PDF (9.46 MB)
Baryons Acrobat PDF (5.72 MB)
Miscellaneous Searches Acrobat PDF (5.41 MB)
Index Acrobat PDF (194 KB)
Color Figures Acrobat PDF (4.24 MB)