Review of Particle Physics

J. Beringer(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J-F. Arguin(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. M. Barnett(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), K. Copic(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), O. I. Dahl(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), D. E. Groom(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), C.-J. Lin(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. Lys(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), H. Murayama(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), C.G. Wohl(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), W.-M. Yao(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), P. Żyła(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), C. Amsler(University of Bern), M. Antonelli(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati), D. M. Asner(Battelle), Howard Baer(Florida State University), H. R. Band(University of Wisconsin–Madison), Tullio Basaglia(European Organization for Nuclear Research), C. Bauer(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. J. Beatty(The Ohio State University), V.I. Belousov(Institute for High Energy Physics), E. Bergren(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), G. Bernardi(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), W. Bertl(Paul Scherrer Institute), S. Bethke(Max Planck Institute for Physics), H. Bichsel(University of Washington), O. Biebel(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), E. Blucher(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), S. Blusk(Syracuse University), G. Brooijmans(Columbia University), O. L. Buchmueller(Imperial College London), R. N. Cahn(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Marcela Carena(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), A. Ceccucci(European Organization for Nuclear Research), D. Chakraborty(Northern Illinois University), M. -C. Chen(University of California, Irvine), R. Sekhar Chivukula(Michigan State University), G. Cowan(Royal Holloway University of London), Giancarlo D’Ambrosio(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli), Thibault Damour(Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques), Daniel de Florian(Universidad de Buenos Aires), André de Gouvêa(Northwestern University), Thomas DeGrand(University of Colorado Boulder), P. de Jong(National Institute for Subatomic Physics), G. Dissertori(ETH Zurich), Bogdan A. Dobrescu(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), M. Doser(European Organization for Nuclear Research), M. Drees(University of Bonn), D. A. Edwards(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), S. Eidelman(Novosibirsk State University), Jens Erler(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), В. В. Ежела(Institute for High Energy Physics), W. Fetscher(ETH Zurich), Brian D. Fields(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), B. Foster(Universität Hamburg), T. K. Gaisser(University of Delaware), L. Garren(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), H.-J. Gerber(ETH Zurich), G. Gerbier(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Tony Gherghetta(The University of Melbourne), S. R. Golwala(California Institute of Technology), M. Goodman(Argonne National Laboratory), C. Grab(ETH Zurich), A. V. Gritsan(Johns Hopkins University), J.-F. Grivaz(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), M. Grünewald(Ghent University), A. Gurtu(King Abdulaziz University), Th. Gutsche(University of Tübingen), Howard E. Haber(University of California, Santa Cruz), Kaoru Hagiwara(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), C. Hagmann(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. Hanhart(Forschungszentrum Jülich), S. Hashimoto(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), K. Hayes(Hillsdale College), M. Heffner(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), B. K. Heltsley(Cornell University), J.J. Hernandez(Universitat de València), Ken‐ichi Hikasa(Tohoku University), A. Höcker(European Organization for Nuclear Research), J. Holder(University of Delaware), Annette Holtkamp(European Organization for Nuclear Research), J. Huston(Michigan State University), J.D. Jackson(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), K. F. Johnson(Los Alamos National Laboratory), T. R. Junk(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), D. Karlen(University of Victoria), D. Kirkby(University of California, Irvine), S. R. Klein(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), E. Klempt(University of Bonn), R. Kowalewski(University of Victoria), Frank Krauss(Durham University), M. Kreps(University of Warwick), B. Krusche(University of Basel), Yu. V. Kuyanov(Institute for High Energy Physics), Y. Kwon(Yonsei University), O. Lahav(University College London), J. Laiho(University of Glasgow), Paul Langacker(Institute for Advanced Study), Andrew R. Liddle(University of Sussex), Z. Ligeti(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), T. M. Liss(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), L. Littenberg(Brookhaven National Laboratory), K. S. Lugovsky(Institute for High Energy Physics), S. B. Lugovsky(Institute for High Energy Physics), T. Mannel(University of Siegen), Aneesh V. Manohar(University of California San Diego), William J. Marciano(Brookhaven National Laboratory), A. D. Martin(Durham University), A. Masoni(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari), J. Matthews(Louisiana State University), D. Milstead(AlbaNova), R. Miquel(Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), K. Mönig, F. Moortgat(ETH Zurich), K. Nakamura(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), M. Narain(Brown University), Paolo Nason, S. Navas(Universidad de Granada), Matthias Neubert(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), P. Nevski(Brookhaven National Laboratory), Yosef Nir(Weizmann Institute of Science), Keith A. Olive(University of Minnesota), L. Pape(ETH Zurich), J. Parsons(Columbia University), C. Patrignani(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova), J. A. Peacock(Royal Observatory), S.T. Petcov(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati), A. Piepke(University of Alabama), Alex Pomarol(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), G. Punzi(University of Pisa), A. Quadt(University of Göttingen), Stuart Raby(The Ohio State University), G. Raffelt(Max Planck Institute for Physics), B. N. Ratcliff(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), P. Richardson(Durham University), S. Roesler(European Organization for Nuclear Research), S. Rolli(Vehicle Technologies Office), A. Romaniouk(Institute of Engineering Physics), L. J. Rosenberg(University of Washington), J. L. Rosner(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), C.T. Sachrajda(University of Southampton), Y. Sakai(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Gavin P. Salam(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), S. Sarkar(University of Oxford), F. Sauli(European Organization for Nuclear Research), O. Schneider(École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), K. Scholberg(Duke University), D. Scott(University of British Columbia), W.G. Seligman(Columbia University), M. H. Shaevitz(Columbia University), S. R. Sharpe(University of Washington), M. Silari(European Organization for Nuclear Research), Torbjörn Sjöstrand(Lund University), Peter Skands(European Organization for Nuclear Research), J. G. Smith(University of Colorado Boulder), George F. Smoot(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Stefan Spanier(University of Tennessee at Knoxville), H. Spieler(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), A. Stahl(RWTH Aachen University), T. Stanev(University of Delaware), S. Stone(Syracuse University), T. Sumiyoshi(Tokyo Metropolitan University), M. J. Syphers(National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory), Fuminobu Takahashi(Tohoku University), Masaharu Tanabashi(Obayashi (Japan)), John Terning(University of California, Davis), M. Titov(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Н. П. Ткаченко(Institute for High Energy Physics), Nils A. Törnqvist(University of Helsinki), D. R. Tovey(University of Sheffield), G. Valencia(Iowa State University), K. van Bibber(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. Venanzoni(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati), M. G. Vincter(Carleton University), P. Vogel(California Institute of Technology), A. Vogt(University of Liverpool), W. Walkowiak(University of Siegen), C. W. Walter(Duke University), D. Ward(Cavendish Hospital), Taizan Watari(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), G. Weiglein(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), Erick J. Weinberg(Columbia University), Lawrence Wiencke(Colorado School of Mines), L. Wolfenstein(Carnegie Mellon University), J. Womersley(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), C. L. Woody(Brookhaven National Laboratory), R. L. Workman(George Washington University Virginia Campus), A. Yamamoto(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), G. Zeller(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), O. V. Zenin(Institute for High Energy Physics), Jing Zhang(Chinese Academy of Sciences), R. -Y. Zhu(California Institute of Technology), G. Harper(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), V. S. Lugovsky(Institute for High Energy Physics), Paul Schaffner(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
July 20, 2012
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Abstract

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2658 new measurements from 644 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We 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 112 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on Heavy-Quark and Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, Neutrino Cross Section Measurements, Monte Carlo Event Generators, Lattice QCD, Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy, Top Quark, Dark Matter, ${V}_{\mathit{cb}}$ ${V}_{\mathit{ub}}$, Quantum Chromodynamics, High-Energy Collider Parameters, Astrophysical Constants, Cosmological Parameters, and Dark Matter.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 2012 edition of Review of Particle Physics is published for the Particle Data Group as article 010001 in volume 86 of Physical Review D.This edition should be cited as: J. Beringer et al. (Particle Data Group), Phys. Rev. D 86, 010001 (2012).


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