It also publishes reviews of theoretical results that are phenomenologically relevant, including those in related fields such as cosmology.
In previous years, the PDG has published the Pocket Diary for Physicists, a calendar with the dates of key international conferences and contact information of major high energy physics institutions, which is now discontinued.
The history of Review of Particle Physics can be traced back to the 1957 article Hyperons and Heavy Mesons (Systematics and Decay) by Murray Gell-Mann and Arthur H. Rosenfeld,[5] and the unpublished update tables for its data with the title Data for Elementary Particle Physics (University of California Radiation Laboratory Technical Report UCRL-8030)[6][7] that were circulated before the actual publication of the original article.
In 1963, Matts Roos independently published a compilation Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States.
[8][9] On his suggestion, the two publications were merged a year later into the 1964 Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States.