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A brief history and overview of the PDG (Particle Data Group) Advisory Committee Meeting, its current encoders, sections in charge, and financial status.
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PDG Japan Tohoku KEK IPMU-Tokyo Nagoya K. Hikasa (Tohoku U.) PDG Advisory Committee Meeting
Brief history 1974 KEK-PDG 1986 RPP activity started (K. Hagiwara, S. Kawabata) 1986 Funding from KEK (Japan-US Program) 1986-90 Kasuke Takahashi 1991-96 Yoshio Oyanagi 1997- Ken-ichi Hikasa 1997 Mirror site at KEK Present Encoders/Overseers: K. Hagiwara (KEK), K. Hikasa, F. Takahashi (Tohoku), K. Nakamura (IPMU Tokyo), M. Tanabashi (Nagoya) PDG Advisory Committee Meeting
RPP Sections in charge • Neutrinos (astrophysical) • Top quark • 4th generation quarks • Higgs bosons • Axions and light bosons • Heavy bosons (W’, Z’, leptoquarks, etc.) • Technicolor • Compositeness (contact int., excited q/l, etc.) • WIMPs and other searches • (formerly Supersymmetry) PDG Advisory Committee Meeting
Current Encoders PDG Advisory Committee Meeting
Papers examined *Replaced Murayama in 2010 LHC Effect!
Review authors Y. Sakai (CKM) T. Sumiyoshi (g detectors) A. Yamamoto (SC magnets) K. Nakamura (ν) M. Tanabashi (leptoquark) K. Hagiwara/K. Hikasa Past authors A.I. Sanda M. Fukugita Review authors PDG Advisory Committee Meeting
Finance (KEK: Japan-US Program) PDG-Japan Budget: Rather stable for ten years, despite the total budget of the program was much reduced budget for JFY2012: JPY12M (~US$150k) *Japanese fiscal year 2012: April 2012-March 2013 Continuing effort to maintain this level PDG Advisory Committee Meeting