About
The PDG API was designed and implemented by J. Beringer (LBNL), M. Kramer (LBNL) and K. Lugovsky (LBNL).
The data provided by the PDG API for the 2025 Review of Particle Physics is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
The source code of the PDG Python API package pdg can be found at
github.com/particledatagroup/api
and is released under a modified BSD license.
For details see the
LICENSE.txt and
README.md
files distributed with the pdg Python package.
Conference presentations
The PDG API was presented at several conferences (most recent presentations are listed first):
New ways to access PDG data, J. Beringer, 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2024, DOI: 10.22323/1.476.1023. Link to proceedings.
The new PDG Python API, J. Beringer, M. Kramer, PyHEP 2024 - “Python in HEP” Users Workshop, virtual, July 2024. Link to recording.
Programmatic access to PDG data, HADRON 2023 Conference, Genova, Italy, June 2023, DOI: 10.1393/ncc/i2024-24206-9. Link to proceedings.
Contact
To provide feedback on the PDG API or report bugs, please contact api@pdg.lbl.gov.