Related papers: R-values in Low Energy e^+e^- Annihilation
A search for phi radiative decays has been performed using a data sample of about 2.0 million phi decays collected by the CMD-2 detector at VEPP-2M collider in Novosibirsk. From the selected e+ e- -> pi+ pi- gamma events the following…
This report summarizes the latest experimental results on radiative and electroweak rare B meson decays. These rare decay processes proceed through the flavor changing neutral current processes, and thus sensitive to the postulated new…
BES Collaboration has collected 58 million $J/\psi$ events at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC). $J/\psi$ decays provide an excellent place for studying excited nucleons and hyperons -- $N^*$, $\Lambda^*$, $\Sigma^*$ and $\Xi^*$…
Based on the PYTHIA physics simulation package, and a fast simulation of the proposed detector for the Next Linear Collider, a set of cuts is identified which leads to a sample of e+e- -> qq events appropriate for the precise measurement of…
We report the first observation of $e^+e^-$ annihilations into hadronic states of positive $C$-parity, $\rho^0 \rho^0$ and $\phi\rho^0$. The angular distributions support two-virtual-photon annihilation production. We also report the…
The study of hyperon decays at the Beijing Electron Spectrometer III (BESIII) is proposed to investigate the events of $J/\psi$ decay into hyperon pairs, which provide a pristine experimental environment at the Beijing Electron--Positron…
The $J/\Psi$ and $\Psi'$ experiments at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) play a unique role in many aspects of light hadron spectroscopy, such as hunting for glueballs and hybrids, extracting $u\bar u+d\bar d$ and $s\bar s$…
Using the data sets of 17.3 pb$^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=$ 3.773 GeV and 6.5 pb$^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=$ 3.650 GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, we have measured the observed cross sections for 18 exclusive light…
The Beijing Electron Collider has been upgraded (BEPCII) to a two-ring collider with a design luminosity of $1 \times 10^{33}$cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 3.78 GeV. It will operate between 2 and 4.6 GeV in the center of…
BESIII is a new state-of-the-art 4pi detector at the recently upgraded BEPCII two-ring e+e- collider at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. It has been in operation for three years, during which time it has collected the…
In this review, the most recent results of the radiative decays B -> X_s gamma, B -> K^{(*)} l^+ l^-$ and B -> pi/eta l^+ l^- at e^+e^- colliders are discussed. The new, most precise CP asymmetry measurements in B -> X_s gamma from BABAR…
A search has been performed for the semileptonic decays $D^{0}\to K_{S}^{0} K^{-} e^{+}\nu_{e}$, $D^{+}\to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0} e^{+}\nu_{e}$ and $D^{+}\to K^{+}K^{-} e^{+}\nu_{e}$, using $7.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data…
Using precise data from the BESIII collaboration, we obtained compelling evidence of a subthreshold pole in the $e^+ e^-\rightarrow D_s^+ D_s^-$ process with mass of (3896$^{+13}_{-22}$)~MeV. The latter suggests the identification of this…
Studies based on imaging the annihilation of the electron (e$^{-}$) and its antiparticle positron (e$^{+}$) open up several interesting applications in nuclear medicine and fundamental research. The annihilation process involves both the…
The analysis of the vector isoscalar excitations in the energy range between 1 and 2 GeV of the $e^+e^-$ annihilation is presented for the final states $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$, $\omega\pi^+\pi^-$, $K^+K^-$, $K^0_SK^\pm\pi^\mp$ and…
About 33, 6.5 and 1.0 pb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data were, respectively, taken around the center-of-mass energies of $\sqrt s=$ 3.773 GeV, at $\sqrt s=$ 3.650 GeV and at $\sqrt s=$ 3.6648 GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC…
The cornerstone of the Chinese experimental particle physics program consists of a series of experiments performed in the tau-charm energy region. China began building e+e- colliders at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Beijing more…
We report values of $R = \sigma(e^+e^-\to {hadrons})/\sigma(e^+e^-\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ for 85 center-of-mass energies between 2 and 5 GeV measured with the upgraded Beijing Spectrometer at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider.
Theory results on precision measurements in electron-positron annihilation at low and high energies are collected. These cover pure QCD calculations as well as mixed electroweak and QCD results, involving light and heavy quarks. The impact…
We show that the $\psi(2\mathrm S)$ subthreshold pole influences the cross section of the electron-positron annihilation into the $\mathrm D^+\mathrm D^-$ and $\mathrm D^0\bar\mathrm D^0$ final states. We perform a fit to the merged BES…