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Four Pion Final States with Tagged Photons at Electron Positron Colliders
A Monte Carlo generator has been constructed to simulate the reaction e^+e^-
\to \gamma + 4 \pi, where the photon is assumed to be observed in the detector.
Only initial state radiation is considered. Additional collinear photon
radiation has been incorporated with the technique of structure functions.
Predictions are presented for cms energies of 1GeV, 3GeV and 10GeV,
corresponding to the energies of DAPHNE, BEBC and of B-meson factories. The
event rates are sufficiently high to allow for a precise measurement of R(Q^2)
in the region of Q between approximately 1GeV and 2.5GeV. For the construction
of the program we employ isospin relations between the amplitudes governing tau
decays into four pions and electron positron annihilation into four pions.
Estimates of the kinematic breaking of these isospin relations as a consequence
of the \pi^- -- \pi^0 mass difference are given.Comment: LATEX, 27 pages, 9 figures, discussion of the kinematic breaking of
isospin relations extended, typos corrected, some formulations change
Precision measurement of the hadronic cross-section through the radiative return method
Electron--positron annihilation into hadrons plus an energetic photon from
initial-state radiation allows the hadronic cross-section to be measured over a
wide range of energies at high luminosity meson factories. Weighted integrals
over this cross-section are a decisive input for electroweak precision tests. A
Monte Carlo event generator called PHOKHARA has been developed, which simulates
hadrons + photon(s) at the NLO accuracy. The latest tests and
upgrades are presented in this paper.Comment: Talk given at 7th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU
02), Santa Cruz, California, 10-13 Sep 2002. TAU-2002-WE06. 10 pages, 12
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Radiative return at NLO and the measurement of the hadronic cross-section in electron-positron annihilation
Electron-positron annihilation into hadrons plus an energetic photon from
initial state radiation allows the hadronic cross-section to be measured over a
wide range of energies. The full next-to-leading order QED corrections for the
cross-section for e^+ e^- annihilation into a real tagged photon and a virtual
photon converting into hadrons are calculated where the tagged photon is
radiated off the initial electron or positron. This includes virtual and soft
photon corrections to the process e^+ e^- \to \gamma +\gamma^* and the emission
of two real hard photons: e^+ e^- \to \gamma + \gamma + \gamma^*. A Monte Carlo
generator has been constructed, which incorporates these corrections and
simulates the production of two charged pions or muons plus one or two photons.
Predictions are presented for centre-of-mass energies between 1 and 10 GeV,
corresponding to the energies of DAPHNE, CLEO-C and B-meson factories.Comment: 13 pages, 15 figure
Perspectives for the radiative return at meson factories
The measurement of the pion form factor and, more generally, of the cross
section for electron-positron annihilation into hadrons through the radiative
return has become an important task for high luminosity colliders such as the
Phi- or B-meson factories. This quantity is crucial for predictions of the
hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, and to the
running of the electromagnetic coupling. But the radiative return opens the
possibility of many other physical applications. The physics potential of this
method at high luminosity meson factories is discussed, the last upgraded
version of the event generator PHOKHARA is presented, and future developments
are highlighted.Comment: Presented at SIGHAD03: Worskhop on Hadronic Cross Section at Low
Energy, Pisa,Italy, October 8th-10th, 200
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