Phys. Rev. D
76,
072008
(2007)
[9 pages]
Measurement of the total hadronic cross section in e+e- annihilation below 10.56 GeV
D. Besson et al. CLEO Collaboration
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D. Besson1, T. K. Pedlar2, D. Cronin-Hennessy3, K. Y. Gao3, J. Hietala3, T. Klein3, Y. Kubota3, B. W. Lang3, R. Poling3, A. W. Scott3, A. Smith3, P. Zweber3, S. Dobbs4, Z. Metreveli4, K. K. Seth4, A. Tomaradze4, J. Ernst5, K. M. Ecklund6, H. Severini7, S. A. Dytman8, W. Love8, V. Savinov8, O. Aquines9, A. Lopez9, S. Mehrabyan9, H. Mendez9, J. Ramirez9, G. S. Huang10, D. H. Miller10, V. Pavlunin10, B. Sanghi10, I. P. J. Shipsey10, B. Xin10, G. S. Adams11, M. Anderson11, J. P. Cummings11, I. Danko11, D. Hu11, B. Moziak11, J. Napolitano11, Q. He12, J. Insler12, H. Muramatsu12, C. S. Park12, E. H. Thorndike12, F. Yang12, M. Artuso13, S. Blusk13, J. Butt13, J. Li13, N. Menaa13, R. Mountain13, S. Nisar13, K. Randrianarivony13, R. Sia13, T. Skwarnicki13, S. Stone13, J. C. Wang13, K. Zhang13, G. Bonvicini14, D. Cinabro14, M. Dubrovin14, A. Lincoln14, D. M. Asner15, K. W. Edwards15, P. Naik15, R. A. Briere16, T. Ferguson16, G. Tatishvili16, H. Vogel16, M. E. Watkins16, J. L. Rosner17, N. E. Adam18, J. P. Alexander18, K. Berkelman18, D. G. Cassel18, J. E. Duboscq18, R. Ehrlich18, L. Fields18, R. S. Galik18, L. Gibbons18, R. Gray18, S. W. Gray18, D. L. Hartill18, B. K. Heltsley18, D. Hertz18, C. D. Jones18, J. Kandaswamy18, D. L. Kreinick18, V. E. Kuznetsov18, H. Mahlke-Krüger18, D. Mohapatra18, P. U. E. Onyisi18, J. R. Patterson18, D. Peterson18, J. Pivarski18, D. Riley18, A. Ryd18, A. J. Sadoff18, H. Schwarthoff18, X. Shi18, S. Stroiney18, W. M. Sun18, T. Wilksen18, S. B. Athar19, R. Patel19, V. Potlia19, J. Yelton19, P. Rubin20, C. Cawlfield21, B. I. Eisenstein21, I. Karliner21, D. Kim21, N. Lowrey21, M. Selen21, E. J. White21, J. Wiss21, R. E. Mitchell22, and M. R. Shepherd22 (CLEO Collaboration)
1University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
2Luther College, Decorah, Iowa 52101, USA
3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
4Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
5State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222, USA
6State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
7University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
8University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
9University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
10Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
11Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
12University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
13Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
14Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
15Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
16Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
17Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
18Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
19University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
20George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
21University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
22Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Received 18 June 2007; published 19 October 2007
Using the CLEO III detector, we measure absolute cross sections for e+e-→hadrons at seven center-of-mass energies between 6.964 and 10.538 GeV. The values of R, the ratio of hadronic and muon pair production cross sections, are determined within 2% total root-mean-square uncertainty.
© 2007 The American Physical Society
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.072008
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.072008
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