Every two years, the international Particle Data Group, consisting of almost 200 scientists from 22 countries and based at Berkeley Lab, releases a new edition of The Review of Particle Physics. The 2012 edition, which runs over 1,400 pages long, was released online today.
Often referred to as “the Bible of particle physics,” the publication compiles and summarizes published results related to particles and their interactions. It may sound a bit dry, but the book is incredibly useful—and ever-present in the lives of particle physicists and astrophysicists the world over.
This year’s edition includes 2,658 new measurements from 644 papers, covering every subject of importance in both particle physics and cosmology—including the latest data on Higgs bosons, supersymmetry, B mesons, neutrinos, dark matter and more.
In total, the PDG’s print editions have been cited in journals more than 41,000 times.
For more on The Review of Particle Physics and the Particle Data Group, see the Berkeley Lab announcement.
