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Test of QED to fourth order by study of four-lepton final states in e + e − interactions at 29 GeV with the HRS detector
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Test of QED to fourth order by study of four-lepton final states in e + e − interactions at 29 GeV with the HRS detector

M. Petradza, C. Akerlof, J. Chapman, D. Errede, M. T. Ken, D. I. Meyer, H. Neal, D. Nitz, R. Thun, R. Tschirhart, …
Physical review. D, Particles and fields, Vol.42(7), pp.2180-2186
10/01/1990
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.42.2180
PMID: 10013071
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http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15252View
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Abstract

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 𝛼. The experiment studied four-lepton final states produced at high 𝑄2 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−⁢𝜇+⁢𝜇−, and 1 𝜇+⁢𝜇−⁢𝜇+⁢𝜇− events with pair masses greater than 1 GeV/𝑐2 for an integrated luminosity of 291 pb−1. The complete 𝛼4 QED calculation agrees reasonably well with the data.

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