Abstract. This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2633 new measurements from 689 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. Among the 110 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on CKM quark-mixing matrix, V_ud & V_us, V_cb & V_ub, top quark, muon anomalous magnetic moment, extra dimensions, particle detectors, cosmic background radiation, dark matter, cosmological parameters, and big bang cosmology.
     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 2006 edition of Review of Particle Physics is published for the Particle Data Group as the complete Volume 33 (July 2006) of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

CITATION
This edition should be cited as: W-M Yao et al 2006 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 33 1

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Print publication: Issue 1 (July 2006)
Published 17 July 2006