{
  "id": "hep-ph/0112184",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-12-13T17:02:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-12-13T17:02:37.000Z",
  "title": "Radiative return at NLO and the measurement of the hadronic cross-section in electron-positron annihilation",
  "authors": [
    "G. Rodrigo",
    "H. Czyz",
    "J. H. Kuhn",
    "M. Szopa"
  ],
  "comment": "13 pages, 15 figures",
  "journal": "Eur.Phys.J.C24:71-82,2002",
  "doi": "10.1007/s100520200912",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-12-13T17:02:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "electron-positron annihilation",
      "hadronic cross-section",
      "radiative return",
      "measurement",
      "monte carlo generator"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 568265
    }
  }
}