Measurement of the Total Cross Section for Hadronic Production by $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Energies between 2.6–5 GeV

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24 January 2000

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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 84 (4) , 594-597
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.594

Abstract

Using the upgraded Beijing Spectrometer, we have measured the total cross section for

e^{+} e^{-}

annihilation into hadronic final states at center-of-mass energies of 2.6, 3.2, 3.4, 3.55, 4.6, and 5.0 GeV. Values of

R

,

σ (e^{+} e^{-} \to hadrons) / σ (e^{+} e^{-} \to μ^{+} μ^{-})

, are determined.

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