Published 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Exclusive hadronic cross sections from BaBar

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (Germany)

Description

Measuring the inclusive hadronic cross section in e+e- is of major interest for the determination of the Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon aμ. The hadronic contribution aμhad can be derived from measured total cross sections of exclusive hadronic reactions with the help of a dispersion relation. Decreasing the experimental uncertainties on these channels is of utmost importance to improve the Standard Model prediction. The reaction channel e+ e- → π+ π- has the biggest impact on the calculation. This talk presents exclusive hadronic cross sections measured with the technique of Initial State Radiation (ISR). A huge dataset was taken with the BaBar detector at the B-factory PEP-II at SLAC (Stanford, USA), an electron-positron storage ring with fixed CM-energy of 10.58 GeV. Using the ISR method we get access to the energy range from the threshold up to 4.5 GeV. The first preliminary measurement of the ππ-channel and other channels important for the the muon anomaly will be presented, as well as the measurement of time-like baryonic form factors.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Bochum 2009 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 44(3)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
DPG Spring meeting 2009 in conjunction with the European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC) of the DPG Division hadronic and nuclear physics and the nuclear physics board of the European Physical Society (EPS)
Dates
16-20 Mar 2009
Place
Bochum (Germany)

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Notes
Session: HK 35.2 Di 17:00; No further information available