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Test of QED to fourth order by study of four-lepton final states ine+einteractions at 29 GeV with the HRS detector
Author(s) -
M. Petradza,
C. Akerlof,
J. Chapman,
D. Errede,
M. T. Ken,
D. I. Meyer,
H. A. Neal,
D. Nitz,
R. P. Thun,
R. Tschirhart,
S. Abachi,
M. Derrick,
P. Kooijman,
L. E. Price,
J. Repond,
K. Sugano,
B. Cork,
D. Blockus,
B. Brabson,
J.-M. Brom,
C. K. Jung,
H. Ogren,
D. R. Rust,
P. Baringer,
Ben Bylsma,
R. DeBonte,
D. Koltick,
E. H. Low,
R. L. McIlwain,
D. H. Miller,
C. R. Ng,
E. I. Shibata
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.42.2180
Subject(s) - physics , lepton , bhabha scattering , order (exchange) , particle physics , luminosity , coupling (piping) , coupling constant , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , electron , mechanical engineering , finance , galaxy , engineering , economics
Data taken with the High Resolution Spectrometer detector at the SLAC storage ring PEP were used to test QED to fourth order in the coupling constant a. The experiment studied four-lepton final states produced at high Q' in e+e interactions at &s =29 GeV. All four final-state particles were detected at large angles with respect to the beam axis. We observed 17 e+e e+e, 24 e+e p+p, and 1 p+p p+p events with pair masses greater than 1 GeV/c for an integrated luminosity of 291 pb '. The complete a QED calculation agrees reasonably well with the data.

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