Newsgroups line: sci.physics.particle Particle physics discussions. CHARTER The sci.physics.particle newsgroup provides a common forum to discuss all aspects of particle physics, theories and experiments. Topics of discussions are, but not limited to: - Pre Standard Model - Standard Model - Beyond Standard Model RATIONALE Particle physics is a very active region of physics, theoretically as well as experimentally. But there is no general forum to discuss this field. Sci.physics is too general a forum, whereas sci.physics.accelerators is mainly discussing particle accelerators and the physics of beams. Some laboratories in the world do have their own newsgroups but are not generally carried by many sites.