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A Monte Carlo generator (EKHARA) has been constructed to simulate the reaction e+e- -> pi+pi-e+e- based on initial and final state emission of a e+e- pair from e+e- -> pi+pi- production diagram.A detailed study of the process, as a…
The role of the reaction e+e- --> e+ e-pi+pi- in the pion form factor measurements via radiative return method without photon tagging is studied in detail. The analysis is based on the developed Monte Carlo program EKHARA, which ingredients…
We present EKHARA Monte Carlo event generator of reactions e+e- to e+e- pi0 and e+e- to e+e- pi+pi-. The newly added channel (e+e- to e+e-pi0) is important for gamma*gamma* physics and can be used for the pion transition form factor studies…
The energy dependence of the electron - positron hadronic cross section can be measured not only by a straightforward energy scan, but also by means of the radiative return method. To provide extensive comparisons between theory and…
The Monte Carlo generator EKHARA allows to simulate the process (e+e- to e+e-pi0) at energies of meson factories. We review the motivation, describe the current status of the generator, and discuss features, which will appear in the…
To improve the accuracy of the e+e- -> pi+pi-gamma Radiative Return method, one has to control the theoretical uncertainty of the final-state photon emission. It is of particular importance at DAPHNE for the analysis, where cuts are relaxed…
Muon pair production through the radiative return is of importance for a measurement of the hadronic production cross section in two ways: it provides an independent calibration and it may give rise to an important background for a…
The Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA, which simulates hadron and muon production at electron-positron colliders through radiative return, has been extended to final states with three pions. A model for the form factor based on…
The radiative return offers the unique possibility for a measurement of the cross section of electron--positron annihilation into hadrons over a wide range of energies. The large luminosity of present phi- and B-factories easily compensates…
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 at high luminosity meson factories. A Monte Carlo generator…
A Monte Carlo generator has been constructed to simulate the reaction e^+e^- \to \gamma + 4 \pi, where the photon is assumed to be observed in the detector. Only initial state radiation is considered. Additional collinear photon radiation…
We compute the radiative corrections to the process of two-pion production in association with a hard photon in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation by taking into account the non-perturbative structure of the pion in the one-loop calculation. For this…
A review of the status of the Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA, developed for experiments using the radiative return method. The four-pion production in electron-positron annihilation and in tau-lepton decays and the narrow resonances…
A short review of both theoretical and experimental aspects of the radiative return method is presented. It is emphasised that the method gives not only possibility of the independent from the scan method measurement of the hadronic cross…
The Monte Carlo event generator EKHARA was upgraded during last years. The upgrades presented here contain: a) the inclusion of new final states $e^+e^-\to e^+e^-\eta $, $e^+e^-\to e^+e^-\eta'$, $e^+e^-\to e^+e^- \chi_{c_i} $ and $e^+e^-\to…
We improve the description of pion-photon interactions in the radiative return process $e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-\gamma$ at the next-to-leading order by including the pion form factor in the Feynman rules. We present a general calculation of the…
We study, at leading order in the large number of colours expansion and within the Resonance Chiral Theory framework, the odd-intrinsic-parity $e^+ e^- \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^- (\pi^0, \eta)$ cross-sections in the energy regime populated by…
Exclusive baryon pair production through the radiative return is a unique tool to determine the electric and the magnetic form factors in the timelike region over a wide range of energies. The decay of lambda-baryons into p + pi- can be…
Using the radiative return method, experiments at high luminosity electron-positron colliders allow to explore the kaon and the pion form factors in the time-like region up to fairly high energies. This opens the possibility to study kaon…
The present status of the physics program, which led to the development of the Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA is described. The possibility of using the radiative return method in various aspects of hadronic physics, from the…