Abstract
The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,062 new measurements from 721 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. 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 Higgs Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Among the 117 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised, including those on Pentaquarks and Inflation.
The complete Review is published online in a journal and on the website of the Particle Data Group (http://pdg.lbl.gov). The printed PDG Book contains the Summary Tables and all review articles but no longer includes the detailed tables from the Particle Listings. A Booklet with the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions of some of the review articles is also available.
| Contents | |
| Abstract, Contributors, Highlights and Table of Contents | Acrobat PDF (150 KB) |
| Introduction | Acrobat PDF (456 KB) |
| Particle Physics Summary Tables | |
| Gauge and Higgs bosons | Acrobat PDF (155 KB) |
| Leptons | Acrobat PDF (134 KB) |
| Quarks | Acrobat PDF (84 KB) |
| Mesons | Acrobat PDF (871 KB) |
| Baryons | Acrobat PDF (300 KB) |
| Searches (Supersymmetry, Compositeness, etc.) | Acrobat PDF (91 KB) |
| Tests of conservation laws | Acrobat PDF (330 KB) |
| Reviews, Tables, and Plots | |
| Detailed contents for this section | Acrobat PDF (37 KB) |
| Constants, Units, Atomic and Nuclear Properties | Acrobat PDF (278 KB) |
| Standard Model and Related Topics | Acrobat PDF (7.3 MB) |
| Astrophysics and Cosmology | Acrobat PDF (2.7 MB) |
| Experimental Methods and Colliders | Acrobat PDF (3.8 MB) |
| Mathematical Tools or Statistics, Monte Carlo, Group Theory | Acrobat PDF (1.3 MB) |
| Kinematics, Cross-Section Formulae, and Plots | Acrobat PDF (3.9 MB) |
| Particle Listings | |
| Illustrative key and abbreviations | Acrobat PDF (235 KB) |
| Gauge and Higgs bosons | Acrobat PDF (2 MB) |
| Leptons | Acrobat PDF (1.5 MB) |
| Quarks | Acrobat PDF (1.2 MB) |
| Mesons: Light unflavored and strange | Acrobat PDF (4 MB) |
| Mesons: Charmed and bottom | Acrobat PDF (7.4 MB) |
| Mesons: Other | Acrobat PDF (3.1 MB) |
| Baryons | Acrobat PDF (3.97 MB) |
| Miscellaneous searches | Acrobat PDF (2.4 MB) |
| Index | Acrobat PDF (160 KB) |
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The 2016 edition of Review of Particle Physics is published for the Particle Data Group as article 100001 in Volume 40, No. 10 of Chinese Physics C.
This edition should be cited as: C. Patrignani et al (Particle Data Group). Chin. Phys. C, 2016, 40(10): 100001
Access to the full text of the 2016 edition of the Review is freely available via PDF. The full text (1808 pages) has been split into smaller PDF files for convenient download.
Corrections were made to this article on 04 October 2016. The author name was corrected.