pdg 0.0.7

Python API for accessing PDG data

PDG Python API

The Python package pdg provides programmatic access to the data published by the Particle Data Group (PDG) in the Review of Particle Physics.

This repository uses Git LFS to manage Sqlite database file. You need to have Git LFS installed before checking out the repository. Please see the instructions at https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs.

PLEASE NOTE: This software is a beta release for testing and is still under active development. The data provided by the present version should not be used in any scientific publications without careful checking of every single data item retrieved from the PDG API.

For documentation of the PDG API see https://pdgapi.lbl.gov/doc.

The source code for this package can be found at https://github.com/particledatagroup/api.

The Review of Particle Physics is available online from the PDG website at https://pdg.lbl.gov.

General information about PDG and the Review of Particle Physics can be found at https://pdg.lbl.gov/about.

To provide feedback or report bugs, please contact [e-mail].

Release history (latest release first)

Version 0.0.7 (May 28, 2024)

• Revised database schema (version 0.2) with new pdgitem, pdgitem_map and pdgdecay
• Support for decays
• Bug fixes (especially also in metadata)
• Final beta version for 2023 Review of Particle Physics

Version 0.0.6 (Dec 14, 2023)

• Support for widths and lifetimes
• Bug fixes (especially also in metadata)

Version 0.0.5 (May 31, 2023)

• First public beta version
• Data from 2023 update of Review of Particle Physics