Measurements of the cross section for e(+)e(-) --> hadrons at center-of-mass energies from 2 to 5 GeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Mar 11;88(10):101802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.101802. Epub 2002 Feb 25.

Abstract

We report values of R = sigma(e(+)e(-)-->hadrons)/sigma(e(+)e(-)-->mu(+)mu(-)) for 85 center-of-mass energies between 2 and 5 GeV measured with the upgraded Beijing Spectrometer at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider.