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Electron-Positron Elastic Scattering at 5-GeV Center-Of-Mass Energy

Newman, H. ; Averill, R. ; Eshelman, J. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 32 (1974) 483, 1974.
Inspire Record 744 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.21306

We have measured the cross section, the distribution of scattering angles, and the distribution of noncoplanarity angles for electron-positron elastic scattering at 5 GeV c. m. energy. An analysis based on 230 events with scattering angles between 50 and 130° yields a ratio of the experimental to theoretical quantum-electrodynamic cross section of 1.03 ± 0.09. The scattering-angle and noncoplanarity-angle distributions are also found to be in excellent agreement with the quantum-electrodynamic predictions.

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Hadron Production by electron positron annihilation at 4-GeV center-of-mass energy

Litke, A. ; Hanson, G. ; Hofmann, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 30 (1973) 1189-1192, 1973.
Inspire Record 85252 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.21416

We have measured the total cross section for electron-positron annihilation into three or more hadrons, with at least two charged particles in the final state. The measurement was made at a center-of-mass energy of 4 GeV with a 2π−sr nonmagnetic detector. With 88 events detected, we obtain a model-independent lower limit on the hadron production cross section of 9.6 ± 1.4 nb; a calculation of detection efficiency based on invariant phase-space production of pions leads to a total cross section of 26 ± 6 nb. This cross section is 4.7 ± 1.1 times the theoretical total cross section for e+e−→μ+μ−. The average charged multiplicity is n¯=4.2±0.6.

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