This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2658 new measurements from 644 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We 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 112 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on Heavy-Quark and Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, Neutrino Cross Section Measurements, Monte Carlo Event Generators, Lattice QCD, Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy, Top Quark, Dark Matter, V-cb & V-ub, Quantum Chromodynamics, High-Energy Collider Parameters, Astrophysical Constants, Cosmological Parameters, and Dark Matter. 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

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2778 new measurements from 645 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 108 reviews are many that are new or heavily revised including those on CKM quark-mixing matrix, Vud & Vus , Vcb & Vub , 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

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This paper describes the design and construction of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber and associated systems. MicroBooNE is the first phase of the Short Baseline Neutrino program, located at Fermilab, and will utilize the capabilities of liquid argon detectors to examine a rich assortment of physics topics. In this document details of design specifications, assembly procedures, and acceptance tests are reported.

We present an improved determination of the proton structure functions F2 and xF3 from the CCFR ν-Fe deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiment. Comparisons to high-statistics chargedlepton scattering results for F2 from the NMC, E665, SLAC, and BCDMS experiments, after correcting for quark-charge and heavy-target effects, indicate good agreement for x > 0.1 but some discrepancy at lower x. The Q 2 evolution of both the F2 and xF3 structure functions yields the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) scale parameter Λ NLO,(4) M S = 337 ± 28(exp.) M eV . This corresponds to a value of the strong coupling constant at the scale of mass of the Z-boson of αS(M 2 Z ) = 0.119 ± 0.002(exp.)±0.004(theory) and is one of the most precise measurements of this quantity.PACS numbers: 13.15.+g, 12.38. Qk, 24.85.+p, 25.30.Pt High-energy neutrinos are a unique probe for testing QCD and understanding the parton properties of nucleon structure. Combinations of neutrino and antineutrino scattering data are used to determine the F 2 and xF 3 structure functions (SFs) which determine the valence, sea, and gluon parton distributions in the nucleon [1,2]. The universalities of parton distributions can also be studied by comparing neutrino and charged-lepton scattering data. Past measurements have indicated that F ν 2 differs from F e/µ 2 by 10-20% in the low-x region. These differences are larger than the quoted experimental errors of the measurements and may indicate the need for modifications of the theoretical modeling to include higher-order or new physics contributions. QCD predicts the scaling violations (Q 2 dependence) of F 2 and xF 3 and, experimentally, the observed scaling violations can be tested against those predictions to determine α S [3] or the related QCD scale parameter, Λ QCD . The α S determination from neutrino scattering has a small theoretical uncertainty since the electroweak radiative corrections, scale uncertainties, and next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections are well understood.In this paper, we present an updated analysis of the Columbia-Chicago-Fermilab-Rochester (CCFR) collaboration neutrino scattering data with improved estimates of quark model parameters [4] and systematic uncertainties. The α S measurement from this analysis is one of the most precise due to the high energy and statistics of the experiment compared to previous measurements [5,6].

A high-statistics study by the Columbia-Chicago-Fermilab-Rochester Collaboration of opposite-sign dimuon events induced by neutrino-nucleon scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron is presented. A sample of 5044 v M and 1062 vv induced /i^/i 1 events with P^ > 9 GeV/c, P^2> 5 GeV/c, 30 < E v < 600 GeV, and

We describe the concept and procedure of drifted-charge extraction developed in the MicroBooNE experiment, a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This technique converts the raw digitized TPC waveform to the number of ionization electrons passing through a wire plane at a given time. A robust recovery of the number of ionization electrons from both induction and collection anode wire planes will augment the 3D reconstruction, and is particularly important for tomographic reconstruction algorithms. A number of building blocks of the overall procedure are described. The performance of the signal processing is quantitatively evaluated by comparing extracted charge with the true charge through a detailed TPC detector simulation taking into account position-dependent induced current inside a single wire region and across multiple wires. Some areas for further improvement of the performance of the charge extraction procedure are also discussed.