Published April 1, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

Total cross section for electron-positron annihilation into hadron final states in the upsilon energy region

  • 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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We report measurements made with the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) of the total cross section for e+e-→hadrons at the UPSILON(1S), UPSILON(2S), and UPSILON(3S), and in the nearby nonresonant continuum. We find R = 3.77 +- 0.06 (statistical) +- 0.24 (systematic) for the ratio of the nonresonant hadronic cross section to the cross section for muon-pair production at a center-of-mass total energy W = 10.4 GeV. For the leptonic decay widths GAMMA/sub e/e of the UPSILON(1S), UPSILON(2S), and UPSILON(3S) we obtain 1.30 +- 0.05 +- 0.08, 0.52 +- 0.03 +- 0.04 , and 0.42 +- 0.04 +- 0.03 keV, respectively

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1285-1299
ISSN
0556-2821