The Review of Particle Physics and the abbreviated version, the Particle Physics
Booklet, are reviews of the field of Particle Physics. This complete Review includes a
compilation/evaluation of data on particle properties, called the “Particle Listings.”
These Listings include 2,633 new measurements from 689 papers, in addition to the
21,926 measurements from 6,415 papers that first appeared in previous editions [1].
Both books include Summary Tables with our best values and limits for particle
properties such as masses, widths or lifetimes, and branching fractions, as well as an
extensive summary of searches for hypothetical particles. In addition, we give a long
section of “Reviews, Tables, and Plots” on a wide variety of theoretical and experimental
topics, a quick reference for the practicing particle physicist