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The European Physical Journal C

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Abstract. Volume 3 Issues 1-4 (1998) pp 1-794
DOI 10.1007/s100529800944

Review of Particle Physics

Particle Data Group

PARTICLE DATA GROUP AUTHORS:
C. Caso ³, G. Conforto ^4 , 5, A. Gurtu ^6 , 1, M. Aguilar-Benitez ^7 , 1, C. Amsler ⁸, R.M. Barnett ², P.R. Burchat ⁹, C.D. Carone ¹⁰, O. Dahl ², M. Doser ¹, S. Eidelman ¹¹, J.L. Feng ^2 , 12, M. Goodman ^13 , a, C. Grab ¹⁴, D.E. Groom ², K. Hagiwara ¹⁵, K.G. Hayes ¹⁶, J.J. Hernández ^17 , 1, K. Hikasa ¹⁸, K. Honscheid ¹⁹, F. James ¹, M.L. Mangano ¹, A.V. Manohar ²⁰, K. Mönig ¹, H. Murayama ¹², K. Nakamura ¹⁵, K.A. Olive ²¹, A. Piepke ²², M. Roos ²³, R.H. Schindler ²⁴, R.E. Shrock ²⁵, M. Tanabashi ¹⁸, N.A. Törnqvist ²³, T.G. Trippe ², P. Vogel ²², C.G. Wohl ², R.L. Workman ²⁶, W.-M. Yao ²

Technical Associates:
B. Armstrong ², J.L. Casas Serradilla ¹, B.B. Filimonov ²⁷, P.S. Gee ², S.B. Lugovsky ²⁷, S. Mankov ^1 , 11, F. Nicholson ¹

OTHER AUTHORS WHO HAVE MADE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO REVIEWS SINCE THE 1994 EDITION:
K.S. Babu ²⁸, D. Besson ²⁹, O. Biebel ³⁰, R.N. Cahn ², R.L. Crawford ³¹, R.H. Dalitz ³², T. Damour ³³, K. Desler ³⁴, R.J. Donahue ², D.A. Edwards ³⁴, J. Erler ³⁵, V.V. Ezhela ²⁷, A. Fassò ³⁹, W. Fetscher ¹⁴, D. Froidevaux ¹, T.K. Gaisser ³⁷, L. Garren ³⁸, S. Geer ³⁸, H.-J. Gerber ¹⁴, F.J. Gilman ³⁹, H.E. Haber ⁴⁰, C. Hagmann ⁴¹, I. Hinchliffe ², C.J. Hogan ⁴², G. Höhler ⁴³, J.D. Jackson ², K.F. Johnson ⁴⁴, D. Karlen ⁴⁵, B. Kayser ⁴⁶, K. Kleinknecht ⁷, I.G. Knowles ⁴⁸, C. Kolda ²⁸, P. Kreitz ²⁴, P. Langacker ³⁵, R. Landua ¹, L. Littenberg ⁴⁹, D.M. Manley ⁵⁰, J. March-Russell ²⁸, T. Nakada ⁵¹, H. Quinn ²⁴, G. Raffelt ⁵², B. Renk ⁴⁷, M.T. Ronan ², L.J. Rosenberg ⁵³, M. Schmitt ¹, D.N. Schramm ^b, D. Scott ⁵⁵, T. Sjöstrand ⁵⁶, G.F. Smoot ², S. Spanier ⁸, M. Srednicki ⁵⁷, T. Stanev ³⁷, M. Suzuki ², N.P. Tkachenko ²⁷, G. Valencia ⁵⁸, K. van Bibber ⁴¹, R. Voss ¹, L. Wolfenstein ³⁹, S. Youssef ⁵⁹,

1. CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Genève 23, Switzerland
2. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
3. Dipartimento di Fisica e INFN, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
4. Università degli Studi, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
6. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
7. C.I.E.M.A.T., E-28040 Madrid, Spain
8. Institute of Physics, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
9. Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
10. Nuclear and Particle Theory Group, Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
11. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, RU-630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
12. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
13. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA
14. Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
15. KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Oho, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-0801, Japan
16. Department of Physics, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242, USA
17. IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universitat de València - C.S.I.C., E-46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
18. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
19. Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
20. Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
21. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesotya, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
22. California Institute of Technology, Physics Department, 161-33, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
23. Physics Department, PB 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
24. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309, USA
25. Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
26. Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
27. COMPAS Group, Institute for High Energy Physics, RU-142284, Protvino, Russia
28. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
29. Department of Physics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2151, USA
30. Rhein-Westf. Tech. Hochschule, Physikalisches Institut, Physikzentrum, Sommerfeldstrasse, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
31. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
32. Department of Physics (Theoretical Physics), University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
33. Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
34. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
35. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
36. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Radiation Physics Department, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309, USA
37. Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
38. Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
39. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
40. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
41. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
42. Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Physics/Astronomy Building, Stevens Way, PO Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195-1580, USA
43. Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, University of Karlsruhe, Postfach 6980, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
44. Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
45. Department of Physics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
46. Physics Division, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230, USA
47. Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
48. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK
49. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
50. Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
51. Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
52. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805 München, Germany
53. Department of Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
54. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
55. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
56. Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
57. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
58. Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
59. SCRI, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
a. Jonathan Feng acknowledges support from the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
b. Deceased

Abstract. This biennial Review summarizes much of Particle Physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 1600 new measurements from 550 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. A booklet is available containing the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions of some of the other sections of this full Review.

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