Android

PDG Particle Listings

An Android version of the famous PDG booklet (almost). This app shows the basic properties of various particles, as well as their decay modes.

The data is taken from the pdg_table.txt file in ROOT

Installation

Download APK

To install, make sure that you have enabled Settings->Applications->Unknown sources, and then open the link above on your Android device. To search for particles using the global search interface, please go to Settings->Search->Searchable items and enable PDG Particle Listings (in Honeycomb, these settings are only available from the search page after cliking the magnifing glass on the top left).

Minimal Android version: 2.1

Source

The source code is available here. The app was developed using the Android SDK and the Eclipse Android Development Tools.

Screenshots

Recent changes

0.2

• Search by PDG code. When a user inputs a number, search by code rather than by name.
• Now works on Honeycomb (Android 3.x, SDK 11+)
• Code clean up
• Use Holo theme on Honeycomb

Issues

• Particles with no width information will be listed as Stable
• MC specific particles (PDG codes from 80 to 99) are filtered out, while the corresponding decay channels are not. That means that one can find decay products Error in the decay tables.
• One can not make a simple bar accent directly in the UI, so anti-particles are marked in red.
• One cannot make a "~" accent, so SUSY partners are prefixed by a "~".
• I'd like to list the quark content, total spin, spin, and angular momentum of the particles. That requires decoding the PDG number
• Perhaps the ROOT supplied file should be swapped for the official PDG supplied file, in which case I need to get the decay channels from somewhere else.