arXiv:1105.4975·v2·High Energy Physics — Experiment
Hadron Production via e+e- Collisions with Initial State Radiation
V.P. Druzhinin🇷🇺 · S.I. Eidelman🇷🇺 · S.I. Serednyakov🇷🇺 · E.P. Solodov🇷🇺
Abstract
A novel method of studying e+e- annihilation into hadrons using initial state radiation at e+e- colliders is described. After brief history of the method, its theoretical foundations are considered. Numerous experiments in which exclusive cross sections of e+e- annihilation into hadrons below the center-of-mass energy of 5 GeV have been measured are presented. Some applications of the results obtained to fundamental tests of the Standard Model are listed.
Comments: 50 pages, 88 figures, accepted for publication in Rev. Mod. Phys